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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 280824, member: 3011&quot;]It&#039;s hard for people today who view money as electronic information to fully realize that money used to be a specific weight of metal.&nbsp; For example, a dollar WAS 371.25 grains of fine silver.&nbsp; The dollar WAS NOT the monetary value of that quantity of silver.&nbsp; So if you tried to tell someone from the early 19th century that we couldn&#039;t &quot;afford&quot; to make dollars out of silver because silver was too expensive, the logic of that argument wouldn&#039;t make sense to them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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