Toward the latter end, Rep. Ron Paul has sponsored a bill repealing legal tender law.

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The larger the denomination of the bill, the shorter its period of being legal tender.

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If multiple states adopt legal tender legislation, depositories open, and the DeMint-Lee-Paul bill becomes law, there will be an alternative monetary system.

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The 1985 law that led to the creation of the U.S. Mint legal tender bullion coin was largely his doing, the outgrowth of The Coinage Act of 1983, a bill sponsored by Dr. Paul.

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Galvez, a Republican state representative in Utah sponsored a bill earlier this year to allow for the state to recognize gold and silver coins as legal tender.

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