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Friday Fun Thread for January 3, 2025

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They are legal tender, and if anyone is insane as to pay your taxes in gold dollars by nominal value, I'm sure the IRS would be fine with that. In fact, if you want to do that, I am sure there would be thousands of people who would be willing to facilitate such transaction. I certainly would - not everyday you can make 200x+ immediate profit.

A modern US coin could become valuable and trigger the same issue, gold standard or no.

There are collector coins, for sure. And I am pretty sure if you buy one and sell it at profit, you'd owe income taxes.