From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:28:31 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
    wrote:   
      
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   >   
   >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...   
      
   The  is produced   
   by the Austrian mint (among others) and is used in a lot more places   
   than I thought before reading that article, apparently always dated   
   1780. Yet both Maria Theresa and the Holy Roman Empire have been gone   
   for quite some time.   
      
   I first learned of it when taking Arabic while in the Army. It was the   
   coin used by Beduins, and the Arabic "dullar" (long U) came, we were   
   told, directly from /Thaler/, not "dollar" (which itself comes from --   
   you guessed it -- /Thaler/).   
   --    
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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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