There's an old saying about not taking any wooden nickels -- but what if it was actually a dime, and what if that was worth ...

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For example, if silver prices are $25 per ounce, we could say that $1 is valued at 1/25th of an ounce of silver. If we convert that to grams, that’s about 1.13 grams on the US dollar ... ingots, coins ...