@Boredfree - My father was quite the philatelist and had a ****ing HUGE collection accumulated over the space of decades. He ultimately sold it all off; most of course were worth pennies, but a few.... yep.

@Clyde - I don't really care, for the most part, and consider autarky, whether voluntary or forced, to have a positive endpoint. Its likely to be forced in our case and be messy on the way there, but that's something we both deserve and can't get around having to deal with, and the timing on it is problematic to predict. I highly doubt, however, the sort of scenarios that people put forward (e.g. collapse due to people buying oil in other currencies, etc.) having anything close to reality behind them.

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