Coins Are Money's Gadget
"Demeter, the divine right of kings, and magic doorways. Whether it's made from gold and silver or copper and zinc, money is only an abstraction, an idea, a necessary notion. Coins are money's gadget, a stage prop for the invisible hand of the market. Machinery makes metal into blanks, art makes blanks into coins, enchanted gates make coins into money, and as money ... the coins ... simply ... vanish." ~Donald Nichols
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"Economy is a poor man's revenue; extravagance, a rich man's ruin." ~~??, frontspiece, The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, Harper & Row, 1836 edition (dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy).
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