George Selgin @GeorgeSelgin · 04 Sep 2026
There isn’t a particle of evidence supporting the commonplace claim that England’s 17th-century goldsmiths illicitly lent coin they were supposed to store. On the contrary: the hoary tale is almost certainly false.*
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