And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Pull one of these out of your pocket and see how people react
Yeah, we stopped hearing about opening up Fort Knox once those calling for it realized the mayhem that would ensue. Not mayhem from the masses, but mayhem from those that up to now have been actually peaceful, not mostly peaceful
Don't those come with a "No Longer Valid" stamp?
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You still trade it for $20 worth of gold, but it's about a milligram.
DeleteStill have silver certificates from childhood. They honored them at federal banks still in 65 if I remember right.
ReplyDeleteSeries 1922 gold $20 note is worth about $200 today, in the condition shown.
ReplyDeleteBut inflation makes $20 cost $380.
DeleteI don't think the banks carry gold anymore that you can receive in exchange for gold certificates.
ReplyDeleteIf you ever heard a twenty called a sawbuck, now you know why. Those double X's do look like one...
ReplyDeleteTens are a "sawbuck", twenties are a "double sawbuck", and the proposed Harriet Tubman 20 would have been called...what?
ReplyDeleteReva $1 silver certificate in change last week.
ReplyDelete-------who sez it's worth how much?
ReplyDeleteI collect old books and have found many old bills in them but nothing this awesome.
ReplyDeleteYeah, we stopped hearing about opening up Fort Knox once those calling for it realized the mayhem that would ensue. Not mayhem from the masses, but mayhem from those that up to now have been actually peaceful, not mostly peaceful
ReplyDeleteIt has been awhile since anyone mentioned a public audit of Ft Knox...
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