Even as a kid living at Rural Route 2A Box 249a (right - not a city, not a neighbor for a mile), when I took a pre-1964 US Quarter Dollar to the Country Store to buy a pack of Hubba-Bubba bubble gum, I knew that my Quarter was high quality. I knew better than to accept a plastic-weight Canadian quarter or worse, the Peso for change.
Have you seen our currency lately? It is cheap tin. A law-abiding citizen could get more precious metal from the lid off a Copenhagen can. At least the Mexicans and Canadians and Tobacco companies have fairly good art on their coins. Were it not for the equally worthless and ugly fiat currencies that the US exchanges with, there is no question that we would be experiencing a recession that puts the Great Depression to shame. I’ll compare this money degradation to the epidemic of porn, because it is ugly, cheap, and demoralizing to this nation.
My advice: start a pre-’64 coin collection, buy a loupe for appraising precious gems and buy gold by the ounce from local pawn shops (or open one and buy it from the distressed). Some bugs survive ice ages - they are called gold bugs.
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