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                                                  COIN OF THE REALM

Hey mister. How much for a bag of peanuts? Twenty-five cents, you say? One lousy quarter. I’ll take two. No, make it three. Ah. That coin of the realm buys you delicious stuff. But that is today. So let us trek back some three thousand years or so, to some time around 550 BC. There was a coin back then that was minted in Turkey, or Lydia. It was made of gold. Let us hearken back then to them there days to an old phrase that has been passed down through time and is still used today for promotions which states ‘As rich as Croesus’.