What if, in order to buy a house, you had to find upwards of fifty different coins weighing 9 kilograms in silver? In lieu of those, a gold coin would suffice but extremely hard to locate and then reasonably obtain given its tendency to be overvalued relative to the other precious metal. Being realistically left with only the first option, of the fifty there’d almost certainly have to be a mix of coins of all different types and spread across several nationalities.
Imagine the look on the home seller's face when you show up at the closing with the heavy burden of bullion.
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