On May 10, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Michael Adams wrote:
On Sat, 10 May 2008 16:23:31 -0400
James Knott wrote:
Bob Estes wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400
John W Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths
of a dollar until just a few years ago.
Let's bring back pieces of 8 :-)
Let's bring back real currency. (i.e. gold & silver coin as
specified in the U.S. Constitution.)
And what's wrong with gold-pressed latinum? ;-)
Can you immagine the size of one dollar gold coins nowadays, You'd
have
to have holes in them so you could thread them into love beads.
The pre-depression gold dollar was already smaller and thinner than a
dime, so small you had to lick your finger to pick it up. At today's
gold prices, a $20 dollar gold piece would roughly meet that
description. Even a silver dollar would be smaller than a dime.
--
John W Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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