At 09:59 AM -0400 07/28/2001, GoldSpender wrote:
>James,
>
>As you know I live in Russia and as soon as these chervonetzs will be
>released, I will let you know and maybe even sell some of them to you.
...
Hi Paul.
Thanks very much! I really know nothing of your money, will there be
more than one size? Are they still doing palladium coins? Do you ever
see Ballarinas (Pd. coins that once graced e-gold Ltd.'s reserves, along
with the cool 100oz Pd bars still in the vaults which still have the former
USSR's Hammer & Sickle emblem on them!) in circulation now? Also,
do individual Russians tend to hoard/use precious metal coins? What
is the official government of Russia reason for suddenly minting these
precious metal coins (or is there one?)? Is there an English meaning
for the word "chervonetz"? [I know, I have lots of questions!]
By the way, I've had great luck with http://www.GoldenGrams.com/ as
a merchant. (Notice how he never seems to offer any nuggets which
are *exactly* one gram? ;) I'm beginning to really appreciate nuggets
as natural art. Chris and I may even barter a nugget or two for a set
of my Boggs Sacagawea coins, but that negotiation's still in process. I
think that Boggs himself may be back in the USA very soon.
On another subject, I'm amazed at some of the assumptions folks are
making about how e-gold is spent! I get the feeling that "Ms. Cleo" (a
Jamaican? psychic and tarot-card reader who purchases lots of cheap,
late-night TV air-time in the USA, and who was recently charged with
fraud of some sort, but who is still on the web at www.mycleo.com as
far as I know) now takes e-gold, and has divined the purposes for all
e-gold spends from a tarot-reading of the e-gold Stats page! :^) Let's
face it, the Ponzis are there, but they're not that interesting to serious
e-gold users. No matter how often I send http://www.mark-knutson.com/
around, they'll exist.
IMO, quite a few e-gold users are just privacy-minded individuals who
like the idea of using gold, so they do it. A number of people like me get
paid in e-gold, all over the world, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who
gets paid weekly, or manages to click the rent to someone in e-gold
every month. There are countless other examples besides me buying
things like nuggets, too. You just get used to living without the hassle
of having to write out checks anymore. IMO, YMMV, Speaking only for
myself, etc. etc.
JMR
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