> Brian Siano wrote:
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>> (Hard to see "nostalgia" in the scheme, since I can't recall any time
>> when local currencies actually existed.)
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> Sure they have - a century ago, in nearly every city and innumerable
> small towns in the USA, UK and elsewhere:
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> http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&ht=1&query=%22trade+token%22&srchdesc=y
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> ( shorter link: http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2E221A56 )
>
> Granted, the above isn't *quite* what the discussion is about...
And I should've chosen my words better: I'd meant to say that I couldn't recall such a time, as it hadn't happened in my lifetime, so I can't say that my interest in the idea was based on nostalgia. (Now, developing an economy based on collecting box-tops from Quisp and Quake, _that'd_ be nostalgia for me....)