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131 - Why Is a Silver Coin Worth Something?

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Coins - It Doesn't Have the Weight of the History Behind It

The coin was not minted by government in the modern age. This is more like a, um, you know, it looks like they copied the eagle landing on the moon from the half dollar pieces. That's the apollo levin ah, there was an eagle landed on the moon with an olive branch on the apollo 11 patch. In michael collins book, he tells the story of why they chose that eagle. But it lookslike they copied that eagle to get some of the what does the word regal mean? Regality. Ah, you knowhati'm trying rigt ye. The authoritative, ye. Just this is authoritative because of authority. Well, embodiment

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