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Monday, 13 February 2023

The Filthie Coin Clipper

 


490-407 BC. Tetradrachm with Archaic head of Athena




I guess coin clipping was a big deal back when currency carried actual value and coins were struck from gold and silver. I’m reading that people would clip a little niblet out, and after doing that thousands of times…the tiny chunks would be melted down into useable bars and be sold to gold and silversmiths. It must have been profitable - the penalties for getting caught at it were severe. People were burned at the stake for it. Historically I am hearing that the eeeeeeeeeevil joooooos were often involved in that and famous for it. Strangely coincidental inninit? HAR HAR HAR!😂👍 No doubt it was just racist antisemitism at work...for no reason at all...

My question is…how could you not? Consider: I have some silver one oz. rounds. I go to Pete’s wanting to buy a bushel of carrots worth half an oz. Whaddya do? I get that you’d go to smaller denominations of silver currency to alleviate that problem but what about gold? I saw a micro miniature “ingot” smaller than  a postage stamp and only a little thicker….and it was worth $10.00. It was so small you’d HAVE to use clippers on it…I can’t see ya being able to hold it to file from it.

The way things are going, we are probably going to to have to reconsider our currencies soon. Any money from shady characters like me will have to be thoroughly inspected before being accepted.

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6 comments:

  1. Bigus Macus13 February 2023 at 08:00

    Gold In Collapse: What I Learned From Lebanon's Crisis! https://youtu.be/ggiiKfXQDG4

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  2. Anonymous13 February 2023 at 10:08

    Buy every stuffed chair, divan, or sofa that's old than 50 years old. Eventually you'll find someone's great-grandfather's $50 goldpiece that's now worth $37M.

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  3. Anonymous13 February 2023 at 10:51

    Silver dime 1960s, might still be too much if it gets hyper.

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  4. B13 February 2023 at 15:16

    .22, 9mm, .223 .45, .308, 30-06

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  5. Skyler the Weird13 February 2023 at 18:36

    That's why Isaac Newton made all the coins have ridges when he became Treasurer of England. You could tell if the coin had been clipped. He made clipping punishable by being hanged drawn and quartered. The things you learn from Neal Stephenson Baroque Cycle.

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  6. Dan13 February 2023 at 21:18

    Yeah....that's why coins now have ridges around the circumference. People used to shave the coins down decreasing the diameter. Putting the ridges on coins made such a practice noticeable.

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