• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    No idea what he uses them for,

    Let’s say you want to buy a computer. You could, like a boring person, go to Best Buy and purchase a computer for 800 bucks on a credit card. Or you could dress up like a pirate with 800 gold doubloons in a sack, and slam that shit on the counter during checkout.

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      8 months ago

      At today’s gold prices, 800 US dollars is just one single small gold coin. A classic 1 oz Krugerrand coin is currently worth more than 2,000 US dollars.

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        8 months ago

        He was referring to using the sack of dollar coins as if they were gold doubloons, not actual gold coins.