From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
      
   One of the most despised emperors, Domitian, actually reestablished the   
   currency in the 80s and 90s.  The prosperity of the empire under the   
   "five good emperors" owed a lot to his reform.   
      
   Well, that and the vast amount of loot Trajan acquired in his conquests.   
      
      
   >      Should have hired it out to the US Mint.  We used to print some   
   other   
   > nations currency...   
      
   Ah, the American Banknote Company, founded in 1795 and still extant   
   despite a recent bankruptcy.  They no longer print banknotes, however.   
      
   There were a number of amusing scandals around the ABC, not involving   
   nefarious activity by the company, but by people acting in its name.   
   After all, who wouldn't trust a well-dressed rep of the ABC?   
      
   William Hyde   
      
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