[#3Fan]

There is no other currency than "fiat" never has been and cannot be since who could carry around enough gold to pay for a car or house. In fact, just carrying around enough to do business on a daily basis would be near impossible and horribly inefficent if possible.

A car is only 63 ounces of gold. The daily business could be done with a few ounces of silver.

[discostu]

Just a few ounces of silver huh. Do yourself a favor, put $5 worth of quarters in your pocket and carry that around for a day. Then comeback and tell me how convenient that is compared to nice folding money. Sorry no matter how you slice it coins suck, there's a reason why the paper dollar keeps crushing metal dollars in the court of public opinions.