If no one was told what was happening...this sounds like fraud to me. smile

BTW, in ancient and Roman times, before the invention of another kind of fraud--fiat, or paper money--this is how money was inflated, by debasement. Keep in mind that coins were valued according to their by weight, not by a number on the coin,

Historians tell us that, by the time the Roman Empire fell, gold coins were mostly lead coins dipped in gold. This created inflation and that such inflation was one of the reason for the fall of Rome as a super power. Does it remind you of another super power, today?

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