To: DeaconBenjamin
You can see the green oxidation of copper on the coin.
So as the currency debases the empire declines. We are starting with worthless paper so we are screwed from the get go.
17 posted on
02/09/2013 7:15:04 PM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
We started with the Coinage Act of 1792. $10 gold was 247.5 grains of pure gold. $1 silver was 371.25 grains of pure silver. A gram is 15.4 grains.
18 posted on
02/09/2013 7:45:26 PM PST by
DeaconBenjamin
(A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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