“He was convicted more than a year and a half ago of ‘counterfeiting,’ because he issued silver coins, which he called ‘Liberty dollars,’ and sold them at a price much lower than they would command in United States currency [today]. The case throws into sharp relief an astonishing irony — that a man who issued money that has sharply appreciated in value is facing the rest of his life in prison while the officials who issue the official Federal Reserve Notes, the value of which has in four years plunged in half, to less than a 1,750th of an ounce of gold, are walking around free.”
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-rosa-parks-of-the-dollar/88051/
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