>you better join your local catholic churches, bend over and take it and ask how you can join the masons
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Gold/silver coinage is a way of preserving the little wealth we have acumulated/saving for a rainy day when the powers that be deliberately bring the fiat money system down. Thats what is happening right now. Our money system is in its death throws. Next to a paid for house (ie debt free), there is nothing that beats gold/silver coins. Of course batttering works a treat too. 5000 yrs of history cant be wrong. It wont be wrong this time. (assuming of course you dont have, if ya do, then the gold is of no use to you