# Utah Goldbacks - new currency

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 23, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utah-goldbacks-new-currency/978674 "2023-01-23T18:12:06Z")
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### Author: ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utah-goldbacks-new-currency/978674/8 "2023-01-24T04:40:51Z")

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I’m wondering how prevalent the use of these in transactions are or if most of those buying them up are doins so as collectors.

Interesting (to me) sidenote: this past semester, I was teaching my students about “local solutions to global issues” and one of those solutions was local currencies. I wish I’d known about the GB then!

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