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Canon 5686 All metallic objects not granted recognition and authority in accordance with these Canons to be known as coin are therefore counterfeit, false and not permitted to be known as valid coin.
Alone, without a demand for payment of said valid coins, and no other payment accepted, that statement of said validity is nothing more than a curious statement of authenticity that could be said about any genuine product of any kind, such as a painting by Michelangelo.
A sentence written by Frank O'Collins, for another example, is the real thing, a sentence written by that author of that sentence, on this date, at this time, in this place, is the sentence written by that author, in fact.
If the same sentence was written by someone else, sooner, then Frank would still be the author of the sentence unless Frank knew that the sentence was copied by the original author.
No snow flake is exactly the same as another snow flake, but to claim that I am the author of the first sentence, ever, in English, saying I am Joe, for example, is patently absurd.
I am Joe.
That is the same sentence authored by someone named Joe, years ago, and I copy, or counterfeit, the same sentence.
So what is the significance of these coins?
Why would anyone be inspired to counterfeit one of these coins?
I don't know.
I suspect that there may be a reason other than merely communicating the facts concerning the origins of the genuine articles.
I do not know those other reasons at this time.
So far as I know at this time the whole idea of UCADIA is strictly a voluntary association, and as such it could be funded by those coins only, and anyone without those coins are unable to join UCADIA, to fund it with those coins, to bad for them, if they want to join, they have to get some of those coins, to join, and to fund UCADIA, with only those coins.
What would be the loss, or cost, for failing to join, and therefore what would be the loss, or cost, for failure to acquire those coins, so as to pay the membership fee, if the whole thing is voluntary?
If those coins are so scarce as to inspire counterfeiters to counterfeit them, then those coins are so scarce as to make joining UCADIA unaffordable for those without those coins.
What is the cost of membership? Who can afford to join? Who cannot afford to join, and why would someone be unable to afford to join?
So, absent information that declares a membership fee, to be paid for exclusively with those coins, there remains that question as to why those coins are anything other than curious artifacts of a value that is fit according to the eye of the beholder.
I would not myself see any need to work extra hours to produce enough value to then have the power to purchase a painting by Michelangelo, for example, since the painting is nice, but a counterfeit version freely downloaded on the internet is good enough for me. I don't mean free in the sense that I get a free computer, a free power supply to run the computer, a free connection to the Network called The Internet, a free desk, chair, room, board, meals, etc. I mean that there is no monetary price demanded for a digital picture already stored on a hard drive, or 1000 hard drives, on that Network, so anyone having the power to connect to the Network, can freely (in that sense of free) get a copy.
The original is probably a very costly thing to have, to hold, to own, or to control, since there may be more than one criminal seeking to get that genuine copy of that painting by Michelangelo.
How about an example?
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