Date: null
Title: bar prate 2!

[Episode #300!]


 Ray breaks the suddenly quiet mood which has pervaded for half an hour or so,
"Anyone interested in silver dollars?  My aunt died a couple years ago and
left me a boxful of silver coins; dimes, quarters, halves and dollars. I'll
sell 'em and I'd like ta make somethin' on the whole thing or any part of it."

I had an aunt who left ME a box silver.  I say,
"How much is the total?"   He says, "$350.00."

My box is $260.00.

"Did you shroff it yet?"
 I ask.

"I ain't a shroff by profession, ya know."
Ray retorts, smiling.

I ask again, patiently,
"Did you go through the coins and pull out the 'good' ones?  Did you CHECK
them?"

"Sure I did."
Ray says.

"Trouble is everything is worth MORE NOW because of the antique factor plus the
price of silver, not to mention jewelry value, and the seigniorage. "
I say.

Sis yawns. Jane sips her beer. PeckFace sweats.  L.A. yawns. Jake watches
PeckFace.

*shroff vt : to sort (coins) into good and bad pieces.
1888 KIPLING, Departm. Ditties (ed. 3) 81 "Deeply indebted to the
village shroff."

*shroff \'shra:f, 'shro.f, esp South 'sra:f, 'sro.f\ n [Hindi
ssub-dot>arra-f, fr. Ar] : a banker or money changer in the Far East; esp
one who tests and evaluates coin.

*sei.gnior.age or sei.gnor.age \'sa-n-y*-rij\ n [ME seigneurage, fr. MF,
right of the lord (esp. to coin money), fr. s]eigneur : a government
 revenue from the manufacture of coins calculated as the difference between
the monetary and the bullion value of the silver contained in silver coins
1996 MARK BERNKOPF, Electronic Cash and Monetary Policy,
"The widespread adoption of electronic cash would deprive Federal
authorities of a substantial amount of seignorage, the margin
between the face value of currency issued, and the costs of issuing
that currency.  In 1994, the Federal Reserve turned about $20 billion
in seignorage over to the Treasury."


2sday 2day!
later,
d.