From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/18/26 16:05, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=   wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:19:46 -0500, Tony Nance wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Should it cost less than 10 cents to make a dime? Less than a dollar   
   >>> to make a dollar bill?   
   >>   
   >> One would hope so. Otherwise the companies making the currency end up   
   >> being richer than the entire countries that are paying them to make   
   >> that currency.   
   >   
   > That's what happened in Zimbabwe.   
   > --scott   
   >   
      
   	Once Rome slipped away from the copper standard it began its decline.   
   	Should have hired it out to the US Mint.  We used to print some other   
   nations currency...   
      
   	bliss   
      
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