From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <1acepklrubuuscj19q0k3kg0gp7njh21ch@4ax.com>,   
   Paul S Person   wrote:   
   >On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:28:31 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>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/).   
   >--   
      
   I believe France still prints (and somewhat manages) the currency of   
   a number of its former colonies.   
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