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Re:The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative ... by msgr1 on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @12:26PM (#3798288)
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Note how excited we are that the winners receive gold bars. -Brandon

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Re:The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative ... by tpurves on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @12:54PM (#3798464)
Why is there no public announcement of this? Why does the actual Canadian Mint website have no links or mentions of this project? Why are there goats and wheat on your webpage? What is this for, some digitally enabled 19th century version of Canada? What kind of goofy hoax is this?
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Re:The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative ... by msgr1 on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @12:56PM (#3798477)
Back in the day, people used goats for currency. Then it became wheat, then coins, then... you get the picture.

The Mint will be issuing a press release momentarily.

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Re:The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative ... by Estragon on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @05:14PM (#3799891)
The ancient Irish used slave girls

http://books.google.com/books?id=GYhajCQU8XIC&lpg=PT345&...

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Re:The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative ... by untog on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @01:33PM (#3798709)
Why is there no public announcement of this? Why does the actual Canadian Mint website have no links or mentions of this project?

Government bodies move slow as all hell. Even when a specific department of the Mint authorises something, it'll have to pass through about six other departments before a blog post is signed off.

(the goats thing is a timeline of currency, seems relatively self-explanatory to me)

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