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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2488137, member: 12789&quot;]Let us not forget that during the worst part of the Great Depression that silver got down into the 30 cent range per ounce.&nbsp; Oil was very cheap also, since there was not much demand.&nbsp; Deflation was common with goods prices all the while gold was increased in value by nearly 75% at the stroke of FDR&#039;s pen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The low silver price during the depression may have brought about would could might well be one of the biggest counterfeiting rackets in the country&#039;s history - the micro-O counterfeit dollars - since silver was valued very low it was profitable to counterfeit dollars, artificially circulate them and then filter them into commerce.&nbsp; And the fraud was so successful it wasn&#039;t discovered until the 1990s and the perpetrators are still unknown.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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