[agitator]

While I'm all for the symbology on the $1 Federal Reserve Note, I feel compelled to point out that a dollar is a unit of measurment of gold or silver coin just as a quart is a unit of measurement of milk. When you look at what passes for a dollar today, the question you should be asking yourself is "What is it a dollar of?" The answer is "Absolutely nothing."

Wonder what Franklin would have said about that.

[MHGinTN]

killjoy₂

[SauronOfMordor]

I feel compelled to point out that a dollar is a unit of measurment of gold or silver coin just as a quart is a unit of measurement of milk.

Actually, the US dollar came from the Spanish Dollar, a coin in wide use in the Colonies at the time of the Revolution, being defined as a coin containing 24.44 grams (or a little under an ounce) of pure silver, which became the basis for the US silver dollar

[SauronOfMordor]

...and the British unit of money, the "pound sterling", per Adam Smith (the original Adam Smith, author of "Wealth of Nations"), was defined as being literally a pound (by weight) of sterling silver

[ArneFufkin]

Wonder what Franklin would have said about that.

He'd have said. "Sir, you are correct. They are worthless. In fact, why don't you give me all the green paper refuse you have and I will dispose of them for you."

[billbears]

When you look at what passes for a dollar today, the question you should be asking yourself is "What is it a dollar of?"

I don't know, perhaps we should find one of Sal Chase's ancestors and ask them. Maybe they know....