So I had a slightly less than brilliant idea yesterday. I thought to myself, "Hey; a simple way to invest my money in case of cataclysmic economic crash is to just get some money in the form of those gold dollar coins. Gold will always be worth something!"

Well I thought this was a great idea, and planned on getting some of my paycheck in gold coins every week-say ten dollars out of every paycheck.

Today I thought I should check to see how much gold is actually in those coins since I know most coins are actually a composite of several different metals. It turns out that there is no actual gold in the gold dollar coins.

Thats right, the dollar coin consists of 88.5% copper, 6.0% zinc, 3.5% manganese, and 2% nickel. I love how all of our currency is worthless paper and almost worthless hunks of metal. We're like ignorant natives trading trading all our food, time and effort for shiny glass beads.