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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coleguy, post: 781115, member: 9167&quot;]Not sure I understand your question too well. But, fiat money as people like to think of it today, really isn&#039;t anything new. If a money has no value other than that placed upon it by a government or some other authority, and is therefor construed as a fiat, then there has been fiat currency as long as man has used a means of trading through the exchange of items other than goods. paper money has been around as long as paper has. Before that, many means of trade consisted of stone and shell monies. Oil, olives, wine, and on and on, were used not as commodities, but as money for thousands of years. It wasn&#039;t until modern times that precious metals were used primarily as money. If a handfull of rocks and a few seashells was acceptable money 3,000 years ago, I find it hard to believe that clad coinage and paper currency could be deemed any less acceptable today. It&#039;s all in how you choose to look at it.</p><p>Guy~[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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