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What would happen if we closed the mint and went back to the barter system?

BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
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In such an event, would we all collect old shoes?
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We'de all just lie around, naked, eating grapes on our bear skin rugs.

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Braddick - Its bad enough to be skinned and have naked people sit on me, but I just will not allow grape juice on my pelt.
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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Professional Game Trapping would be Very Big Again.

    Opps Bear is in trouble if that happened. Bear's Hide for some Flour and Sugar or maybe just a old fashion Bear Claw.

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bear- you'de be safe. Stealing all those picnic baskets has you in pretty good shape.

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Braddick - I think you are confusing me with Yogie Bear. I am a gentleman bear and I do not perloin picknick baskets. Actually, I am very fond of tuna fish, but I have a great deal of trouble getting them out of those star kist cans.
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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coin Related ???imageimageimageimage


















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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Sorry- I promise that I will be a good little bear and talk only about round metal discs with birds and buildings and monuments on the back.
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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All the Time ??..........BORING,VERY BORING
      Some of the Time.........COOL,VERY COOL


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    1. SpoolySpooly Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭
      Wow............ now look who is gumpy! (Ken)

      Trillions of coins have been made.... you could close the mint for 10 years without hurting a thing. People would just be force to use them.... instead of putting them in jars and cans.
      Si vis pacem, para bellum

      In God We Trust.... all others pay in Gold and Silver!
    2. FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
      I'm a Damn Serious Collector that Only wants to See coin subjects here !!!!









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    3. BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
      I can remember back several years ago , when there was a shortage of pennies. Banks were paying 5-10% premium for rolls of cents. What would be wrong , if that happened for all denominations of coins.
      Its about time that greedy banks started giving something back to the consumer.
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    4. braddickbraddick Posts: 24,223 ✭✭✭✭✭


      << <i>Coin Related ???imageimageimageimageimage >>



      "COIN" four letter word. Two vowels in the middle.

      "BEAR" four letter word. Two vowels in the middle.

      It all sounds related to me.

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    5. coynclectercoynclecter Posts: 2,111
      Gee Bear, I find your post to usually be quite shallow but you have surpassed yourself with this one.
    6. BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
      Thank you braddick, but the dime man is correct. I get carried away sometimes and off subject. I have been correctly and appropriately chastised, and I shall carry my contrition with all the dignity and solomnity I can muster, for a little bear. Sob, sniff, sob Bear
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    7. FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
      Banks paid Extra for These ?? Come on now who in thier right mind would do that ?

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    8. CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,514 ✭✭✭✭✭
      Maybe we could return to the feudal system of the Middle Ages, with nobles and serfs. I don't believe they used many coins.

      Seriously, though, I think closing the Mint would bring a lot of coins out of cookie jars, and we'd have an adequate supply of coins for many years. You didn't say that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing would stop printing currency.

      Back during the coin shortage of 1964-1965, banks in some parts of the country were buying all coins at $1 per 95-98 cents worth of coins. I kept a newspaper article about that (Sylvia Porter's column, I think) for a long time, but don't know if I still have it. Will anyone else admit to being old enough to remember that?

      Jim
      Countdown to completion of my Mercury Set: 1 coin. My growing Lincoln Set: Finally completed!
    9. RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭
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    10. michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
      i would trade you 2 women or one goat for your proof liberty twenty dollar gold piece only one goat though as it gives milk

      sincerely michael
    11. goyankeezgoyankeez Posts: 357
      TOTAL CHAOS

      We'd be forced to use credit cards.image

      Michael- I'd give you everything I've got for two women. image
      "Buy the coin, not the holder"

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