{"id":43297,"date":"2019-01-30T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T11:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43297"},"modified":"2019-01-30T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T11:05:10","slug":"crossing-borders-with-gold-and-silver-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43297","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Borders with Gold and Silver Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/articles\/crossing-borders-with-gold-and-silver-coins\/\">Crossing Borders with Gold and Silver Coins<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/articles\/crossing-borders-with-gold-and-silver-coins\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Gold-Coins-Map.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s well-known that you have to make a declaration if you physically transport $10,000 or more in cash or monetary instruments in or out of the US, or almost any other country; governments collude on these things, often informally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold has always been in something of a twilight zone in that regard. It\u2019s no longer officially considered money. So it\u2019s usually regarded as just a commodity, like copper, lead, or zinc, for these purposes. The one-ounce Canadian Maple Leaf and US Eagle both say they\u2019re worth $50 of currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019ve had some disturbing experiences over the past couple of years crossing borders with coins. Of course, crossing any national border is potentially disturbing at any time. You might find yourself interrogated, strip searched, or detained for any reason or no reason. But I suspect what happened to me crossing a few borders in recent times could be a straw in the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve gradually accumulated about a dozen one-ounce silver rounds in my briefcase, some souvenirs issued by mining companies, plus others from Canada, Australia, China, and the US. But when I left Chile not long ago, the person monitoring the X-ray machine stopped me and insisted I take them out and show them to her. This had never happened before, but I wrote it off to chance. Then, when I was leaving Argentina a few weeks later, the same thing happened. What was really unusual was that the inspector looked at them, took them back to his supervisor, and then asked if I had any gold coins. I didn\u2019t, he smiled, and I went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossing Borders with Gold and Silver Coins It\u2019s well-known that you have to make a declaration if you physically transport $10,000 or more in cash or monetary instruments in or out of the US, or almost any other country; governments collude on these things, often informally. Gold has always been in something of a twilight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[4955,6227,374,6228],"class_list":["post-43297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-digital-currency","tag-doug-casey","tag-gold","tag-international-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43298,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43297\/revisions\/43298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}