RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)If you have to weigh or otherwise assay the coins during a transaction, it's more efficient to use the forms of precious metal most commonly used before or instead of coins, e.g. the silver larins that were used in the Indian Ocean trade. The main point of coins is to conduct rapid and efficient retail transactions based on trusting the stamp. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Collecting Metal: The Inner and Outer Worlds of Jewelry, Coins, Bullion Bits, and Odd Shiny Things"Some metal collectibles came in a wide variety of artistically skilled forms. Others came in the form of coins: labeled, mass-produced pieces of metal stamped by the blow of a hammer or cast in molds, whereby a mostly-trusted brand named their alleged value. Still others came in forms that look odd to us, resembling neither coins nor fancy jewelry, but rather utilitarian-looking piec ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@TedThayer_ The early Chinese coins also had bead-holes. (The defining feature of coins being that they were stamped or molded with a mint's design, i.e. brand -- the Chinese version, unlike the Western version, were still strung like beads until modern times). ...

If coins keep going up the way they are soon you’ll all have girlfriends ...

GM, Asia just woke up.Who dumped our beloved coins? https://t.co/YrowYO4u0b ...

go buy some coinsit's ur patriotic duty ...

RT IcoBeast.eth🦇🔊 (@beast_ico)It’s literally crypto week in America starting in a couple hours and you don’t think they’re gonna blast the coins to ridiculous new highs?Ngmi ...

It’s literally crypto week in America starting in a couple hours and you don’t think they’re gonna blast the coins to ridiculous new highs?Ngmi ...

RT 🕵️GEM DETECTER🕵️ (@gem_detecter)Both are #useless coins — but one gives you a chance to buy 1,000x cheaper than the other.Do the math. https://t.co/CDQdyWkK1K ...