by sdcoin | Jul 23, 2020 | Bullion, Silver
Silver has been a form of money and store of value for more than 4,000 years. Our nations founders used Spanish coinage AKA pieces of eight to anchor American currency. However, it lost its role as legal tender when the use of the silver standard came to a final end...
by sdcoin | Jul 23, 2020 | Bullion, Gold
The first modern international monetary system was the gold standard. After WW1, the gold standard was replaced by the gold bullion standard. Nations no longer minted gold coins but backed their currencies with gold bullion and agreed to buy and sell the bullion at a...