
“Gold Is Gold Everywhere, Fungible And Indifferent. But When A Disk Of Gold Is Stamped By A Coiner With Certain Pompous Words And The Picture Of A King, It Takes On Added Value
Seigneurage. It Has That Value Only In That People Believe That It Does
It Is A Shared Phant'sy.”
— Neal Stephenson —
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