For a second there I was afraid our predecessor of unfond memory had returned.
- Sorry to give you pause. TR 16:02, March 11, 2010 (UTC)
I hate to say it, but thinking back on the Night of the Long Silvers, we'd now do the same thing if some noobs started shitting the place up with inside jokes. On the other hand, we weren't noobs by then; we'd been around for months and had already increased the total number of articles by around 1000%, to say nothing of raising the bar of quality standards. Turtle Fan 04:59, March 11, 2010 (UTC)
- True. A bit of irony there.
- Just call us the Taipings: We overthrow a hated regime and celebrate by deciding it had had some good ideas and emulating its style for ourselves. Turtle Fan 19:43, March 11, 2010 (UTC)
- On a completely unrelated note, I surprised when I put in a link to gold that it came out red. I'd thought for sure we had an article on gold. But as I think about it, aside from the usual "people like gold" stuff, HT hasn't really used gold as a critical plot point or even a MacGuffin, has he? TR 16:02, March 11, 2010 (UTC)
- References abound to gold being used in coins and jewelry, but before Vilcabamba I can't think of a single thing worth writing about it. The closest might be in . . . what was that story all those years ago, the one with the time traveller who fires a handgun in a Roman villa and another Roman deduces that he's a time traveller based on a stray comment while reading Iliad. It's in Departures. Anyway, the time travellers had come back with a bunch of coins bearing the face of an emperor who hadn't been on currency for a century, but the coins themselves were shiny and new. So the investigator assumed they were counterfeit, but the gold was real, it just didn't come from an official min.
- Actually that's not remotely noteworthy, is it. Better off documenting all the stories which mention that gold holds its value when paper currency hyperinflates. Turtle Fan 19:43, March 11, 2010 (UTC)
Silver in Topanga and the Chatsworth Lancers[]
According to the Cladded US Coins article, Silver along with Gold were good for trading after The Change. However, even the "metal-sandwich coins" retained some value since no one could make them any more. Is the article referring to Silver coins or pieces of Silver? Would this information about Silver be worth adding to the article? --75.68.122.13 20:45, October 27, 2015 (UTC)Jacob Chesley the Alternate Historian
Counting Potsherds[]
Should a section be created, since a silver mine is crucial to the POD? Or maybe the article Laurium is sufficient.Matthew Babe Stevenson (talk) 05:44, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
- I also agree. Turtle Fan (talk) 16:22, 14 November 2022 (UTC)