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Must be the lines for the cheap seats. When I go through the priority line at Heathrow, I usually get actual Brits 🤔

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This episode ia metaphor that reminds us of the extent to which the old culture is now gone. We cannot assume that a young person has heard of…of…well, you name it. A few years ago, War Street Journal then-regular columnist wrote
“…the poet T.S. Eliot.” And he was writing for a WSJ audience.

PS: "I wonder how they treat Kruggerrands. At some point I’ll need to flee the EUSSR." You can take your chances and not say a word.

I'm not sure about the Euro versions of the TSA. In London, the whole crowd were foreigners. Personally, I'd rather not pass any gold through a line run by the "Asians", as they DO know the value of that stuff. With some of the Americans, you'd likely get away with "It's just some collection I want to bring with me. Don't worry about it..." That's not that this stuff is any of those people's business - are they worried you'll throw Kruggerands at the flight attendants and take over the plane? - but it's not 1950s America anymore...

PS: I also hadn't known that the Kennedy half dollars had ANY silver in them. I see that the '64s were 90% but were hoarded from the get-go, and that, besides a few specials, only '65 to '70 Kennedy 50 cent pieces have that 40% silver.

The actual weight of silver contained in them goes along with the linear silver-wt/face-value of the rest of the silver coins, the dimes, quarters, and dollars. (These coins are known as "junk silver", but they are anything but junk.) So, the Kennedy 1/2 dollars have 0.37 tr-oz of silver. Today, that get one 12 of those green piece of paper with George Washington on them plus 2 of those pot-metal things still called dimes. i.e. Silver is right at $33/oz last I checked.

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I’m occasionally asked at the immigration/customs line how much cash I’m bringing with me, and the line that shuts the questioning down immediately is “Less than ten thousand dollars.”

I wonder how they treat Kruggerrands. At some point I’ll need to flee the EUSSR.

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"I meant pre-1965, hence, silver, dimes, of course. These things are 90% silver"

Constitutional silver is good to own, but just for fun I also have a role of 40% Kennedy half dollars, which I didn't know were a thing until recently. They aren't popular, even among silver bugs, so you don't see them around much, but if 90% ever gets the kind of premiums tacked on it that bullion and Eagles have, 40% might become a desirable option. As of right now, I don't think 40% has any premium above its sliver melt value. 90% was real low priced too, but that might be changing (I don't follow this stuff very closely.)

Jim

PS: Good evening, Achmed,

Maybe the TSA should hire former Aldi's employees.(?)
They wouldn't even know what those silly little coins are.

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PS: I believe you, Adam. There's a good side to this, though. If you go through customs at an airport, those 50 oz of gold you may be trying to take down to Guyana are officially worth only $2500. If it says (as I recall) that one must declare any money over $10,000, you don't have to.

That does not mean that you will get all 50 US Gold Eagles out on the other side of the TSA disassembly line. Caveat Emptor!! "To the bug-outer beware!"

PS: Good evening, gentlemen,
https://i.ibb.co/HfqwsqdK/Three-Dollar-Note.jpg

When using coins as legal tender the face value is what determines their value. Don't believe me? Take a $50 gold eagle down to the IRS office and offer to pay taxes with it. They will accept it, because they have to, legal tender and all that. But they will not let you discharge $3000 worth of tax obligation with it.

Cheers! ☮️

PS: I meant pre-1965, hence, silver, dimes, of course. These things are 90% silver. "How do I know that?" "Search it up, dude." "What's silver worth?" "Search it up."

By then the manager has come up to tell the cashier to quit dicking around. They don't waste ANY time at Aldi. One cashier told me that they did get paid pretty good for working that hard. He didn't say how much though.

PS: Yes, the Stanley Brothers! I like the bluegrass, Jim, so thanks for that one - I had not known the song before.

"The Aldi cashiers weren’t entirely wrong: All fiat is fake." What I was considering putting in this post, Alarmist, is speculation on how these cashiers would have treated the guy trying to pay for groceries with silver. "Hey, these dimes are worth $2.30 a piece. You'll come out way ahead if I give you a roll of them for these 100 fiat dollars in groceries." "Save it, Boomer! We're not THAT stupid!"

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The Aldi cashiers weren’t entirely wrong: All fiat is fake.

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I can't hear about two dollar bills and not think of one of my favorite songs from my (strangely esoteric) youth. (Esoteric where I grew up. Maybe not so much in the Appalachian mountains.) The song seemed to indicate that two dollar bills were once fairly common in the early 20th century, though I don't know if that's true or not.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxoOEdfcehc