On the Nature of Specie

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Харбин Хэйлунцзян
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Сообщение Харбин Хэйлунцзян »

I've been going to English classes for a month and today each student gave a talk. It is my pleasure to share mine with you.

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In the age of electronic transactions when mere information threatens to supplant banknotes as monetary media we now shall peep out at where it all started. Two millennia ago Jesus said to Peter, “Go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money.”

“What was that piece?” I hear you ask. “Was it a banknote?”

No, it was a stater. in other words a coin. And in the days of yore mints struck specie of pure gold so that when you weighed a piece in your hand, it was the real wealth that you weighed not a note of it as determined by a bank or a state. All banks and all states could have ceased to exist, Rome itself could have gone to hell in a handcart, and yet the wealth in your hands wouldn't have lost a shred of it. That is to say...

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And I wish good luck to everybody. :)
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Сообщение ivorfuzzle »

Why the weird style?
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