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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 614833, member: 16510&quot;]<b>It helps the &quot;common man&quot; establish that the nation issuing it is/was/ or will be sov</b></p><p><br /></p><p>It helps the &quot;common man&quot; establish that the nation or group issuing it is/was/ or will be sovereign.&nbsp; It&#039;s not so important today but before this revolution of ready information when a person was in the mists of a deal and money was demanded or offered for service or goods people had to have some measure of assurance they would be getting a fair deal - why else have anything on a coin or a coin at all - you could just have 5 grams of gold, silver copper or whatever.&nbsp; With uniform coinage it speeds any business transaction up and saves time and trouble.</p><p>In effect though most never really look at their coins they know what they are worth in face value at a glance and this smooths the running of any economy.</p><p>Can you imagine all of us standing around at the grocery store with differing amounts of gold, silver, and copper and each transaction would turn into a hour long nightmare.</p><p>With hundreds of millions of us even a millisecond glance at a quarter tells us instantly what we have and what it&#039;s worth - the date just further insures reliability.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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