posted by QuakerOats

 

not banned for life.

posted by O-Trap

To be fair, since he was giving a coin, it does have intrinsic value.  Especially as the idea of 'money' started as a means of commerce, all money was coins of rare metals, so they had value.

Now, if we are talking paper money with no gold backing (aka what we have now) then this meme is correct.