Currency and coins are only created to meet the demand for people that want to hold cold hard cash.

You make a good point, Kevin, that it could mean buying some other currency.

I think if we did a study of the naive people who think the StR arbitrage model is the Holy Grail, wed find that the same people previously thought that of multi level marketing, real estate wholesaling, and currency day trading.

This is one of the reason Robert Kirosaki states why he doesn't invest in Canadian real estate.If you are concerned about exchanging money - find a forex broker (e.g. 

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...

The first is that the dollar weakening against other currencies makes imports more expensive.

I might add that Germany’s answer to hyperinflation was to introduce a new currency secured by real estate.Even the Chinese, who have seen quite a bit of social unrest in the last 15 years, have primarily contained this behavior to protests and demonstrations.

If you look at historical money supplies and gold and silver "values," it is pretty clear, IMHO, that we are in the middle of a currency bubble right now.

.)- € is the new currency since 2011.

Gold being one of the earliest currencies in the human civilization, it is funny that there are no standardizations yet ;)BTW I just got a reply from my lender, and they said that the gold has to be essentially liquidated to cash before making it count.