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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1272839, member: 22143&quot;]Oh Good Grief.&nbsp; By harping on this point it is you who are trying to change the topic.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You were simply wrong with the point you made, i.e. gold is no different than any other metal because other metals have been used to mint currency.&nbsp; You missed the point completely that other metals have been very rare and valuable and furthermore missed the point of the metal being the object of value being traded.&nbsp; (your statement that governments don&#039;t do assays)&nbsp; I&#039;m still not sure you understand it.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, I&#039;m not going to go back to ancient history and dig up the examples for you.&nbsp; It&#039;s not worth my time to give you complex histories that you won&#039;t take the time to look at and/or don&#039;t have an open enough mind to understand the context.&nbsp; Or if outright, proven wrong, you are simply silent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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