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 | Charleston Voice |
| China's History with the Chop-Marked US Silver Trade Dollars |
| BY PAUL GREEN
There are probably no coins more interesting than United States Trade dollars. The list of unique features of this dollar is long. To begin with, they were slightly larger than the standard silver dollar, and that was unusual.
Of course, Trade dollars were larger for a reason – they were designed to be exported to help expand trade with China, whose merchants wanted silver coins, not gold. The merchants in China might have accepted Trade dollars, but back in the United StaSaturday, June 29, 2013 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| Important Read: SILVER 101/CHECK THOSE SILVER DOLLAR PREMIUMS |
| By Al Doyle for CoinWeek …….
The situation in the silver bullion market is interesting, to say the least. Many voices are saying this is the time to buy with low spot prices, but those who expect to pay something close to a paper (not real) value get a rude awakening when they discover that the cost of the real thing currently has little relation to the manipulated spot price.
Even those who are willing to adjust their thinking and deal with the new reality in pricing often find themselveThursday, May 30, 2013 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Composition of U.S. Currency 1941-1970 |
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We will continue our look at the composition of U.S.currency since 1880.
July 15, 2012: The Composition of U.S.Currency 1880-1941
We are basically describing how the U.S.currency went from a rather varied mix of items to one single monopoly currency issuer, the Federal Reserve.The postwar period is not as interesting as the 1880-1941period, but it helps us finish our story.Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
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| Gold - New World Economics |
| Composition of U.S. Currency 1941-1970 |
| Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The Composition of U.S. Currency 1941-1970 |
| We will continue our look at the composition of U.S. currency since
1880.
July
15, 2012: The Composition of U.S. Currency 1880-1941
We are basically describing how the U.S. currency went from a rather
varied mix of items to one single monopoly currency issuer, the
Federal Reserve. The postwar period is not as interesting as the
1880-1941 period, but it helps us finish our story.
The source of the data is:
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/puSunday, July 22, 2012 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The Composition of U.S. Currency 1880-1941 |
| I thought it would be interesting to look at the evolution of the
U.S. currency system, particularly in the pre-WWII period.
Here is the relevant graph. The source of the data is:
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=38&tid=21
Today, we use Federal Reserve Notes pretty much exclusively for our
currency. However, it was not always that way -- certainly not
before the Fed was created in 1913. As you can see, there was quite
Sunday, July 15, 2012 |
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 | George Maniere - Investing Advice |
| Gold, Silver and The Debt Here and Abroad. |
| Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
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 | Jason Hommel - Silverstockreport |
| What Naysayers are Saying; 1-37 of 112 |
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| Silver - Silverstockreport |
| What Naysayers are Saying; 1-37 of 112 |
| Wednesday, December 9, 2009 |
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 | David Morgan - Silver Investor |
| The Silver Millionaire |
| Ask almost anyone to define million in terms of thousands and you will get
the answer that a million is a thousand thousands. Although the word millionaire
still connotes a degree of financial freedom in today's world, as the saying
goes, "she ain't what she used to be" - meaning a million today is not as valuable
as a million 10, 20, or certainly 50 years ago.
An area that I would like to explore is that of distinguishing the meaning
of the word millionaire in terms of silver and in tFriday, June 29, 2007 |
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