In days of old, money-strapped monarchs reduced the gold or silver content of their coins.
Perhaps a better argument can be made for other scarce metals: platinum, say, or silver.
The dollar has no intrinsic value and is not backed by any reserves of gold or silver.
Or that India has public companies that offer credit to people wishing to buy gold or silver.
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Delays potentially could result in losses if the prices of gold or silver decline, the filings say.
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Some musical instruments are made of silver or silver alloys and silver is used to produce formaldehyde.
Paper currency began as warehouse receipts for specified weights of gold or silver.
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Kings and Emperors would start out with pure gold or silver coins.
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Recently, GBI announced a program that allows publicly traded companies to offer shareholders their dividends in physical gold or silver, instead of cash.
Available in all-black, or silver with a red accent adding to the camera's elegance, the TL34HD takes camera design to a new level.
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While not evident Wednesday for gold or silver, the heightened uncertainty is still an overall bullish underlying factor for the precious metals markets, and especially gold.
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Under the law, no one is actually required to accept gold or silver coins as legal tender, so again we refer to the dollar by default.
Investigators are looking for an older-model, four-door sedan, either brown or silver, but it wasn't clear whether there were one or two suspects Thursday afternoon, Laney said.
The S9500 will also sport a red or silver finish, the S5200 can be had in blue, purple or red, while the L28 will come in red and silver.
They wore some 30 different uniform styles, each with a different color piping on the jacket and cap, and decorated with elaborate gold or silver-plated wire on the shoulder board.
The other option is to invest in silver mining companies or Silver Wheaton (NYSE: SLW), which is a silver royalty company whose stock price is highly correlated to spot silver prices.
When your MBS or junk bonds are no longer accepted as collateral you have to dig deep into the vault and come up with something that is accepted, like gold or silver.
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Bicycles are not allowed on green-line trains or silver-line buses, nor are they allowed on any train during rush hours (7 am to 10 am and 4 pm to 7 pm Monday through Friday).
Its greatest exponent is Yasuki Hiramatsu, born into a family of metalsmiths, who, through an annealing process, can twist a single length of gold or silver into a ring or necklace enchantingly resembling a minimalist bird's-nest.
But compared with their Islamic, Indian, and Chinese counterparts they were latecomers, originally interested in importing luxury Asian goods for the European nobility and bourgeoisie in exchange for wool and woollen products or silver and gold.
With an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8 GB memory, a hard disk capacity of up to 500GB, and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 GPU, this bad boy is available in Brown Luxe, with either chrome or silver accents.
Several analysts told Kitco News that it appears the main factor differentiating this planned product from the majority of the existing ETFs in North America is the ability of investors to get their hands on physical gold or silver whenever they choose to exit, although they could also cash out.
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Police have appealed for anyone who saw the man or a silver or grey saloon vehicle near the scene at the time of the attack to contact the force.
Coinage fluctuated between all gold (less frequently) or all silver (more frequently) or all paper or all Spanish for the dollar.
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The same applies to ETFs that trade or hold gold, silver or platinum.
"As we have said throughout, we are confident that the commission found no legal or ethical violation by Speaker Silver or his staff, and urge the Legislative Ethics Commission to release the report immediately, " Whyland said.
Other smart money managers prefer the liquidity of exchange-traded funds like SPDR Gold Shares or iShares Silver Trust.
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The Leica M9-P will be available from Leica dealers in two different finishes, black paint or traditional silver chrome, beginning July 2011.
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