Recently I was checking the price of silver and it amazed me that it was in the 35.00 dollar range. I then was looking at some WW2 nickels I have that are something like 35% silver. To my surprise they were valued at 2.00 dollars each. Now think about that, what I have in my hand above has a face value of .50 cents (ten nickels). The metal content in each coin is worth 40 times the value.
I bought these coins at a coin show around 2004. These are part of a bag that has 27 WW2 silver nickels for the price of 4 dollars. I could do the math but in eight years the value of a simple street nickel has increased something like 8 to 10 times. What happens here is the US dollar policies have been on a "weak" dollar. This is where we print money and that increases the price of fixed commodities such as silver.
So in the end if a nickel is made of silver or other materials is it still a nickel? We will never know or something. What is that line from Napoleon Dynamite? Kip says something in the way of: "like anyone can possibly know that."
Off subject, My friend Ken is working with me and my friend. We are doing this circuit training once a week and also supposed to be documenting our calories we eat. He wanted me to take a picture of my lunch and send it to him. What does having a picture of my lunch help me get in shape? Oh well, so I thought to include it in today's post. Look at my nice fit and active fettuccine Alfredo with lots of pepper on it with a side of two oranges, sun chips, and a water.
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