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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1217527, member: 19065"]"<span style="color: #000080">Meanwhile, in <b>New Hampshire,</b> many merchants associated with the <a href="http://freestateproject.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://freestateproject.org/" rel="nofollow">Free State Project</a> have begun accepting gold and silver at their businesses. Innovation abounds here and <b>the practice of encasing small amounts of silver in laminated cards seems to be the most successful</b>.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"></span><span style="color: #000080"><b>Shire Silver encloses silver and gold wire in their cards and measures them in terms of grams. </b>It's much easier to trade a flat, plastic card containing a gram of silver than to carry around a 1 oz coin. However, even their website will admit that the premium on such a small amount of silver makes it less than ideal for investment purposes. Of course, when you're ready to barter, they'll be happy to take your 1 oz rounds in return for some Shire Silver. And that Shire Silver is being accepted by more and more merchants across New Hampshire and beyond." </span></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Full article here:</i> <b><font size="3">Peter Schiff: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20110705/FREE/110709989" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20110705/FREE/110709989" rel="nofollow">The rise of the barter economy</a></font> <font size="3">[July 5, 2011]</font></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1217527, member: 19065"]"[COLOR=#000080]Meanwhile, in [B]New Hampshire,[/B] many merchants associated with the [URL="http://freestateproject.org/"]Free State Project[/URL] have begun accepting gold and silver at their businesses. Innovation abounds here and [B]the practice of encasing small amounts of silver in laminated cards seems to be the most successful[/B]. [/COLOR][COLOR=#000080][B]Shire Silver encloses silver and gold wire in their cards and measures them in terms of grams. [/B]It's much easier to trade a flat, plastic card containing a gram of silver than to carry around a 1 oz coin. However, even their website will admit that the premium on such a small amount of silver makes it less than ideal for investment purposes. Of course, when you're ready to barter, they'll be happy to take your 1 oz rounds in return for some Shire Silver. And that Shire Silver is being accepted by more and more merchants across New Hampshire and beyond." [/COLOR] [I]Full article here:[/I] [B][SIZE=3]Peter Schiff: [URL="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20110705/FREE/110709989"]The rise of the barter economy[/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][July 5, 2011][/SIZE][/B][/QUOTE]
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