Do you mean the government issued IOU plastic notes? Or real gold?
I hope you are not one of those clueless dumb sheeple who think that the one and two-dollar coins contain real gold, willrocks.
Back in the late 1980s, I tried to educate my fellow workmates at the place that I was working at by bringing in some real old-time circulating gold coins,
and explaining to them that what I was holding was real money, and that what they had in their pockets was counterfeit makebelieve money.
This was only a few years after the introduction of the gold-colored one and two-dollar coins.
There was a bit of initial fascination and interest from the crowd until I mentioned to them that the 100-year-old sovereigns that I had on the lunch
table could be purchased for not much more than $100 apiece.
Then their enthusiasm and interest quickly waned as $100 was about the daily wage for us at that place, and none of them wanted to purchase
a gold sovereign at that price.
Their ignorance and stupidity was further reinforced by the old leading hand, who stood up and proudly proclaimed that the gold one and two dollar
coins that he had in his pockets were all the gold that he needed!
Trying to explain to him that the coins in his pocket did not contain any gold was a pointless exercise, as he was not going to accept that he was wrong,
so after that, I stopped trying to educate anyone about real money and just let the fools be.
The above example unfortunately is an all too common example of this country's standard of intelligence, and goes a long way in explaining why most Aussies
are so accepting of tyrannical rules and Despots that have stripped away most of our freedoms.
