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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 3973887, member: 16729&quot;]So, they &quot;become money&quot; at the moment the &quot;coiner&quot; (person in charge on the coining room floor?) gives those huge bags of coins over to the person who wheels them out of the coining room and places them in temporary storage?&nbsp; Or when they leave the mint BUILDING?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Somebody here told me that (U.S.) coins were different from banknotes in that banknotes are not money until the Fed buys them at face value from the BEP, and that coins become money the instant they are struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reminds me of the theological argument of when the soul enters the physical body (at conception? or...?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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