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- link to the Spainish dollar
- How clever are U to answer all the 7 questions ( i got 3 out of 7!)= [[2]]
[edit] human dignity?
When money is the Issue then Meritocracy became the only system available.. minus human dignity
[edit] No money Man
..for two years he lived without money
- A Donegal man has founded a ‘freeconomy’ movement that seeks to encourage a more sustainable lifestyle, and he’s leading by example, managing to survive without any money
NEARLY TWO years ago, Mark Boyle decided he no longer wanted any money, so he just gave it up. That wasn’t all he gave up. He also quit his job as the manager of an organic food business, sold his home – a houseboat in Bristol – and moved into a caravan on a farm outside the city. The 31-year-old from Ballyshannon, Co Donegal hadn’t lost the plot but instead had decided it was time to rewrite the rules by which he lived his life. He also wrote a book about his experience, The Moneyless Man, which was published earlier this summer.
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[edit] See my trillionair club membership
- join us?..
..join us..it's worth a about the price of a Egg..
[edit] money
- you need money to survive in Spore, no doubt you have to work, or work very hard to earn it. However most ppl believe All of us existed to work hard, and to make money
Remember this old S'porean roadside Philosopher (I met one day) who said,
- All your hard earned money will be spent via someone else if you don't spent it!
(Note: I will herein give a reminder of that fact..)
[edit] currency versus gold
- [[4]]..
Gold Vs U.S. Currency
[edit] old money
((old coins of Sarawak}}
..a reproduction (fake) 1-cent
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The decision not to inject more money was seen as a positive sign that the UK economy was recovering and did not need further help from the central bank.
[edit] What exactly is money?
- Ask that question to a person from rural China, and they will tell you the same thing we here in Spore would say, "it's hard earned sweat 金 錢 "
- In Mexico, it's peso..
The name peso means weight, and this is a reference to the principal characteristic of the coin. During colonial times, the silver mines of Mexico supplied ample sources of pure silver and, more importantly, the peso was the first coin to have a border that made it easy to detect if the coin had been tampered with. It was a common practice to cut or wear down the edges of gold and silver coins, thus obtaining raw precious metal. Since the peso was a coin of pure silver with an exact weight, it became very popular: Mexican pesos were used in China and the Philippines.
[edit] in England, the news
The decision not to inject more money was seen as a positive sign that the UK economy was recovering and did not need further help from the central bank. Pounds soars..to new height by 1.8 per cent , no money to be injected..into the system see Forex
[edit] 1000 Canadian note
- the smart Canadian used a paper note to replaced a bagful of many hundred of coins!
..i like to get one, hehehe
[edit] Old coins of Spore
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[edit] Proverbs 23:4,5
Proverbs 23:4-5 (New International Version)
- 4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
- have the wisdom to show restraint.
- 5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
- for they will surely sprout wings
- and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
..it's idolatry!
..my collection of million dollars of notes from history
Since I am not a frugal person, I believe money made here is to be spent! How much can you bring along when U fly to your final destination in eternity? AnsweR is Not a single cent! What about Jade???
[edit] Money over family ties
Why ppl quarrel..
From..BBC News, Rome..
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Two British orphans adopted by one of Rome's most famous princely papal families are locked in a bitter legal feud over which of their children will eventually inherit an estate reportedly worth more than 1bn euros (£930m).
[edit] The love of money has made us idolators
- money so often had us so Upside down with our real true eternal values..
- even years ago they realise this world is crazy (moronic!) :周璇 - 瘋狂世界..it's a upside down world..!
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[edit] bubble Up
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[edit] In what sense when the early dynasty ( Ming and Ching) coinage of China ran the whole economy system?
- In the past merchants depended upon one another : trust as an inter-dependent means of securing and selling goods. China needed commerce to flow since the capital needed a form of money to ran the whole country.
- Then silver was another visible means of securing loans and the borrowing and accessing the values of things.
==Here the story in those ancient days==http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4MavAeuARxIC&oi=fnd&pg=PP14&dq=%22r+von+glahn%22&ots=p3iz_V0gxg&sig=1fygHChrY3Gb66fPI_94xbv4oL4#v=onepage&q=&f=false
[edit] Carolus peso
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Both the physical qualities of different types of money and the cultural values assigned to them contributed to the determination of their economic value. China began to import substantial quantities of silver coins from Europe as early as the sixteenth century, but it was around 1800 that a foreign coin, the so-called “Carolus peso” issued by the Spanish kings Carlos III and Carlos IV, became the basis of a new monetary standard in China, the yuan. In the nineteenth century the Carolus peso and imitations of it (mostly manufactured in China) served as the principal means of exchange, and the yuan as the standard unit of account, in the markets of South China. This paper analyzes the monetary conditions that led to the establishment of the Carolus peso as the monetary standard of South China with particular consideration of the distinctive “currency circuits” formed by regional variations in monetary circulation. Significant differences can be seen in the monetary regimes that prevailed in Jiangnan and Guangdong, the major commercial centers of the empire. While Guangdong reverted to a commodity money standard that allowed the use of a wide range of different types of physical monies, including “chopped” and broken foreign coins, in Jiangnan the Carolus peso became a unified, fiduciary monetary standard. This regional variation attests to the distinctive regional characteristics of market culture in late imperial China.
[edit] British Trade dollars
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..those British trade dollars..
(FOREIGN SILVER COINS IN THE MARKET CULTURE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY CHINA)
[edit] Spanish dollars in China
After 1757, China restricted European trade to Canton (see Thirteen Factories for a description of this trading system). The British East India Company dominated this trade and paid for its purchases with Spanish Carolus dollars, which were accepted in China for more than the 4s:2d sterling that was considered their intrinsic value. Chinese merchants gradually became accustomed to the dependable weight and fineness of Spanish milled silver and, instead of melting the coins down, they began to use them as currency, often with a chop (seal, countermark) to guarantee its acceptability.
Both the physical qualities of different types of money and the cultural values assigned to them contributed to the determination of their economic value. China began to import substantial quantities of silver coins from Europe as early as the sixteenth century, but it was around 1800 that a foreign coin, the so-called “Carolus peso” issued by the Spanish kings Carlos III and Carlos IV, became the basis of a new monetary standard in China, the yuan. In the nineteenth century the Carolus peso and imitations of it (mostly manufactured in China) served as the principal means of exchange, and the yuan as the standard unit of account, in the markets of South China. This paper analyzes the monetary conditions that led to the establishment of the Carolus peso as the monetary standard of South China with particular consideration of the distinctive “currency circuits” formed by regional variations in monetary circulation. Significant differences can be seen in the monetary regimes that prevailed in Jiangnan and Guangdong, the major commercial centers of the empire. While Guangdong reverted to a commodity money standard that allowed the use of a wide range of different types of physical monies, including “chopped” and broken foreign coins, in Jiangnan the Carolus peso became a unified, fiduciary monetary standard. This regional variation attests to the distinctive regional characteristics of market culture in late imperial China.
Editing Financial disaster in the making1 ++The total collapse of the world system of balance of payment
- runaway inflation generated by a total lost of confidence in the stock markets and another terrible bubble burst again! It's burst will be making it: much, much monstrous in size compared than the present recession
- How much is there in a trillion
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- The Obama bailout
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- The Great Non Sequitur
+++Change! again?
[edit] December 12, 2012
- In Europe they are jumping mad at China They believed China is causing hyper-inflationary pressure on them all..because China only sell them too much goods and caused them to be short of money, and they wanna the yuan to re-value on a floating system of exchange..It was never a problem with the money they had, before - it was valued less, and nowis- due to the USA bubbling up with their trillions hehehehe of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$..so re-value??? the yuan, they said, we never had it higher ..it's as high as it can go..
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{{trying to make sense}} Money is not everything in life..
..A HUNDRED YEARS AGO..HOW MUCH CAN YOU BUY WITH THESE ONE CENT COINS?
CHECK THE cpi HERE>[[9]]..10000 times One cent may allow to buy a gold coin. However, today a few dollars(1 dollar =100 cents) allow YOU to BUY A few things, like a 300 grams of sugar or flour or a pint of oil or a quart milk or an egg? or a packet of cigarettes. 2oo years ago sugar was in mass production driven down by cheap labor from the slave market in USA. 250 years ago it was only affordable to the Upper class : a luxury item! Slavery due sugar plantation workers who came to work in USA ,,see [[10]]
Yesterday (1950-70s) A BIG CHICKEN may be around 35 cents, a packet of 12 cigarettes 10 cents.. you'll earn a few dollars a day if you have a white collar job (civil servant, clerk or teacher), if you are a coolie, then a few cents a day or a month's wages for a shopkeeper's assistant is a few (5-6) dollar per mth, in 1960s the wages for a month for an accomplished actress is about $50 ..that is real good money
BTW they used to exchange One silver dollar as equal to 100 (1-cent) coins
[edit] One hundred years ago
People handled and use a quarter of a cent! Today it's of no value unless you buy it from a coin collector shop for sale..I brought one rare King Edward V11 (he never abdicated his throne! it was Edward V111) value with the same quarter cent for $80.oo Singapore dollars! And a few one cent, five cents and ten paper King George notes for twenty-five dollars $Sg..that probably close to their real value 100 years ago!
- Forgery??
..goto see[[11]]..
BTW someone put our a reproduction listed 1/2 cent old coin and the picture was different (1/4 cent)..kind of confusing maybe..it's real for the quarter cent as i see the pic..I have a few old ones with real aging black patina on it..further research on it goto another site)..biography of Queen Victoria..[[12]].that his son Edward V11 took over the throne after she died..and the coins were in 1901 (with Victoria) and Edward V11 (1903-1910) soon after! If you can find a few pieces of same coins with same year (1901) and different heads..that will be very amazing, and it's so rare people will think they must be forgeries!
When I saw this coin, I thought to myself why would anyone want to have a quarter cent? But then of course, we have to remember that a 100 years ago (this is a 1901 coin), one cent was a little money, and you can buy things with it.Not many ppl has even one cents! They just barter for things they needed! Most coins were one cent, of course, there were $1 coin too (the British Trade Dollar was very popular) but at the very lowest level, 1/4 cents and 1/2 cents were also in use..cp. with this web-page[[13]]
[edit] fair comment
..4 real
I've sold one to a gentleman (Mr. Lee, manager of AIA branch there) (as a serious joke) in Kluang a few months ago..for the price of RM50, however I offered to buy back IMMEDIATELY for double the amount (Rm100!) I just sold, and he refused! So anyone seriously considering to buy another similiar coin (to sell or to buy or trade..!) of same age and year ..contact me here in Spore..my email is at [[norey_2@hotmail.com]user:alien]..no joke! see another web-page..here>> [[14]]
qUERY:how much would a salaried teacher or civil servant (e.g. a police constable) gets for one month in Singapore 100 years ago???
Answer:.................?? LESS THAN 100 DOLLARS, IT'S ABOUT 3 - 6 DOLLARS FOR A TEACHER, AND POLICEMAN GET LESS THAN $10..I am guessing U know?
[edit] mANY SUCH COINS USED DURING THE jAPANESE OCCUPATION
..NOTE THE STAMPS IN cHINESE INDICATE "PRIVATE USE"
[edit] Coins
The first coins issued for the Straits Settlements in 1845 were ¼, ½ and 1 cent denominations in copper. They were issued by the East India Company and did not bear any indication of where they were to be used. A second issue of the same denominations was produced in 1862 by the government of British India. These bore the inscription "India-Straits".( i 'VE SUCH COIN WITH THAT INSCRIPTION FROM 1862)
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["][" alt="SARAWAK 1934 KING BROOKE 10 CENT"]
In 1871, silver coins were issued in the name of the Straits Settlements for 5, 10 and 20 cents, followed by copper ¼, ½ and 1 cent the next year and silver 50 cents in 1886. Silver dollars were introduced in 1903. As a consequence of the depreciation in the dollar's value, the silver content of the coinage was reduced from 1907. The last ¼ cent coins were issued in 1916. Dollars were last struck for circulation in 1920, with 50 cents production ending in 1921. The remaining coins continued in production until 1935.
[edit] Rare Spanish Coin Found Near San Francisco
..a Christmas present when a coin hunter found this on a an isolated beach in San Francisco..[[15]]
[edit] nEW <reduced wts> SILVER COINS FROM 1907
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[edit] Rare find among junks
An Egyptian couple was clearing and cleaning out the old closet..and found this old piece of coin and it's apprised at 'US$15 millions!!!! 
- sources[[16]]
[edit] tHIS WORTH MILLIONS
..cannot be auction (WITHOUT A CHALLENGE BY THE mint AUTHORITY IN usa) i.e. legally stolen from USA mint? HEHEHEit was robbed by FDR from all American since 1933..however one piece was sold and the mint got half the proceeds..
[edit] REAL OR UNREAL
..real..replicate ..counterfeits or fake[[17]]?..
..so?
- ANSWER GOTO SEE [[18]]..
- ANSWER GOTO SEE [[18]]..
when comparing both walking liberty bullion coins it's easy to see that the counterfeit has the same slippery details as we see from other Chinese made counterfeit coins. I guess that is also the reason why they created a coin with a date 1906 as nobody would believe such details on a 2002 American eagle dollar.
[edit] THE LARGE COIN
Inscription says: United States of America One oz fine silver One dollar with "copr" under the emblem of the eagle from original Col Snowden "E.Plurbus Unum"
The LIBERTY lady shown walking with a bunch of flowers(?) in front of the Stars and stripes(flying) and the shining sun on the left and the "In God we trust" dated 1906
- SMALL COINS ARE COMMON CIRCULATED ONES
[edit] One-third of HK workers will consider leaving city for better life elsewhere: survey
money or cash on hand also referring to the credit cards line which people aften use to pay for purchases. Most people spent their lives chasing after money.However, when one has a big BIG bundle in the banks and more than enough to live on for the rest of one's life, Is it enough yet? Just getting more and more of it would not necessary made one happy or even satisfaction or find any meaning of life? What is the meaning if there is a single one in this life? goto see Purpose of life
- read the story of king Midas with the Golden touch
a Sing$10000 note>>>>
..if you have 100 pieces, then it has make U a millionaire!
[edit] Money minded or People orientated?
- A consistent talking point is that Singaporeans are money minded in contrast with people mindedness. How true is that (?) since such remarks are not actually depicting individual but generally Singaporeans as a half bred muticolored distinct people?
{{trying to make sense}} That material possessions don't guarantee happiness is a winning idea these days in Hollywood, of all places. Testimony was the big Oscar winner, "American Beauty", a movie suggesting that notion. Oh, well. But not all trite ideas are wrong. In fact, there is much evidence indicating that, sure enough, money doesn't buy happiness - or at least not so you would notice.
This is a point of view which all Singaporeans could change and help ourselves to improve upon. Singaporeans loved traveling and most had been all over in places like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China and across to Europe and the U.K. as well as to America. Perhaps, we find other people worldviews are varied and different, sometimes we note that they expressed that we (as Singaporeans) are noted for our cleanliness as a city, and other high points of scoring that the system here really works plus we have the X-factor and so forth..(Whatever that means!)
Nonetheless, when we compare ourselves to others' sincere and genuine hospitality and kindness (such people mindedness in others) I am ashamed that we really fall far short. Alien talk 09:26, 6 February 2007 (EST)
We could have done better with or without the incentive of money so I hope the generations to come will learn and change, and let such values as the inner social core values within us as strength in us as Singaporeans and not the external matters related to money ( we have loads of) and what it stand for..: Alien talk 09:26, 6 February 2007 (EST)
Perhaps one sure finger points at our political leaders whose leadership had made money the practical goals for all Singaporeans: day in and day out we talk about money, money and money. The business of money making seems to have driven us as Singaporeans to a common denominator and goal for life: cultivate your values with money in mind.
That I hope will change: there is certainly more important matters to us compared to the business of money making. I sure hope to see a concern for the well being of people is driven by our inner values of our true humanity than simply the need and a duty to perform for the sake of moneymaking.
[edit] What money cannot do
There are many things money cannot buy:
- It (money) may buy us some short-term happiness, and that's is indeed short, however, it cannot buy us eternal life, nor gives us everlasting comfort or peace here now. A lot of people find happiness and enjoy it to the fullest, still they find little as regards to real meaning in such short-term happiness. Buddha was one of them; he gave up all the temporal happiness for the belief in the philosophical concept of re-incarnation, yet there is but little historical or scientifically evidences to such claims, even though there is reality in what Buddhism such as reality in other creeds and beliefs.
- Money cannot buy someone who refuses to sell what he/she may hold as precious such self-esteem or the choices (volition) to be made by others. Though I must say money used to be able to buy and sell people as slaves (it's illegal to trade with people as a commodity in our present world). Therefore, it cannot buy someone allegiance or loyalty.
- Money may buy all the earthly comforts however, it fail to buy genuine peace or our future destiny after death. Likewise money is needed to buy all the necessities for survival (food, clothing & shelter etc) but it does not made surety for our eternal state to come in the hereafter. With any meaning in life we live to best no different from a pampered animal!
- On the negative side effects, easy money from Grand-Parents to children or grandchildren can develop sloppy habits at very young age, and sometimes (often) with bad or drastic consequences to the children who cannot learn to work with their hands to develop skills in a modern competing society. I have seen too many cases.
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[edit] What money can do
- CAN DO A WORLD OF GOOD when we learn to share properly like helping the needy..it's greed that's abuses..
- make all of us slaves except some..even the computer cannot handle so many zeros in Zim bar we..
Brokers said this week that the Zimbabwe dollar broke the barrier of 10 billion to a single U.S. dollar in direct bank buying, while in electronic transfers, it exceeded 20 billion Zimbabwe dollars to $1 U.S. they need not money anyone, just bartering..and trading of goods without money!
- Change lives and damaged families and hurt people as in the Gambling Industry!: Alien talk 06:46, 21 September 2007 (SGT)
- Answers found here>>>
[edit] How does the gambling industry gets its money to operate?
It's not to far from anyone's guess.. try read from the Gaming Industry news to find out..
[edit] How the system of the world operates around money
Most Sporeans hardly know "hard times". Those who lived thru the Japanese occupation like LKY understands far more, and even youmg Americans easily forgets the lessons of the great depression in the early 1910s. {{Money]] was then "useless" as hyperinflation was the norm of those "hard times" then. What's hyperinflation??, ..well it just mean money has lost its value : a few millions will only buy you a cup of coffee or half a loaf of bread! I want to teach you this reality, a lesson about "hard times". Here's my proof of the pudding in the pie:
[edit] Thinking of the unthinkable
What's so unthinkable..death, so ? not that unthinkable, but we don't put death as a reality for us to think of ,,NOW but money..yes, sure! what happen when money becomes "worthless"?
[edit] U laugh and said, "no such bills!
so sorry U lost..there is! Yes it's here in the present "now" and in current usage in one of the poorest country in Africa..
and how much would you need to buy a loaf of bread?
Answer here....>>>
(the Zimbabwe President thought he can make more money by printing it..it just cause hyper-inflation to the Zimbabwe.. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
That's unreal and will never happens anywhere outside that poor country (Zimbabwe}..please hold that argument
, it has happened before, and will it happen again? I sure cannot say "never"!. Yes it happened in China as well as in America and Europe, that's why we have the great world wars (2 of them) which were fought because.. OF those who have... , and those who have more to lose
..MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL GREED, HAVEN'T YOU SEE THE GREEN monster labelled " GREED" BE4?
..THIS is REAL 2..when they start printing it again...
HAVE SEEN GREEN EYEs here?
[edit] Even the death needed money hehehe
Every lunar 7th month we literally burnt tons and tons of fake money for the ghosts!
[edit] Then there was a time when people carried such gold' coins to buy things
[edit] Why many became rich
..RICH OLD MAN sORROW
Those who lived thru those hard times like LKY and Warren Buffet understands the rationale for the existence that the world needs a credit and debit system based upon universal trust: money is the way we can do it, and few people cannot live without it!
In essense many poor people learned the lesson during those "hard times"
- Waste not, want not!
- Waste not, want not!
That BTW is how many stories from rag-to-riches happened..
[edit] Link
goto see Purpose and find meaning for living your own life..
Also read further how we generate wealth without the well being for the majority of havenots in mind..[[21]]
[edit] The more garmens trusted in generating money, as in creating casinos, the great risk of hyperinflation to come
- REDIRECT
- And see what happened to the USA casino when the sovereign God allowed Katrina to blow over it gambling dens hehehehe: Alien talk 07:03, 21 September 2007 (SGT)
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Look-up what Jesus said here about life..
Mark 8:36
contentment.&.[[22]thankfulness]]..altogether equal the successful Life!
Old Paul said, 'Godliness and contentment is great gain..
[edit] The whole world think we are held together by money I tell you we are held together by the Almighty power of God
[edit] Be Simple enough
So we can see and understand!
..one hundred dollar note..
..$10,000...
..One million small pile of dollars worth
a pallet worth of $100 millions..
..a billion..not bad eh?
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[edit] ever consider the trillion~$$$$~ question?
..looking at a trillion of $$$$$ and U r too small in the pic..hehehehe
(Notice those pallets are double stacked.
...and remember those are $100 bills.)
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The Lord Jesus said, I have overcome all ..come.&.follow Me!
[edit] Money is found growing on trees!
Once you might have been asked by someone about the growth of money
from trees. If you said it's impossible, perhaps you should take your words back. The answer is yes it does. But the question is how to grow the money on the trees?
..tree leaves used for painting pictures!
- Somehow we forgotten that paper were made from trees...
Has anyone ever used such leaves for making money?
Of course ..here is my money 10$HK from the tree!
..just we see it here>>again?
..Yes some of the fine print paper comes from trees! just your daily Newsprint, eh?
