
131 - Why Is a Silver Coin Worth Something?
No Dumb Questions
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The Devaluation of Currants
You can get a coin like that for a reasonable price. That would maybe be worth 50 bucks or less. I think it had silver on it at one point. You avoided my question. Was this 200 dollars? I no, it's no. The edges have just gradually been worn down by contact. Or nipped just a little bit here and there. There isn't any reason to keep trimming the edges of that coin. As it's copper, it wasn't silverso this just no human motivation to steal the value off the edges get much. Which is interesting, because quarters are like that.
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