My forebears in trinidad had a chain of shops across the island (mid 1800s, lee lum family, great grand mother on Chinese side) and so were authorized by the crown to mint coins.
They did, square metal coins with a round hole in the middle, the opposite of the Chinese coins they left behind in their adventurous exploration out and away from china. They used their diligent savings to finance the drilling of the first oil well in the western hemisphere, earlier than the one Americans drilled in Pennsylvania, even as the Americans, typically, claim to have drilled the first oil well w/o checking google first, as bernanke claimed the printing press to be an American secret weapon.
Have grand pa's oil book on my desk, worm eaten but still okay.
Minting money, keeping shop, and drilling for oil seemed to be the way to go. Making revolution was okay, as long as well financed. 99% against 1%? More like 1% leads 99%.
As and when they discover the 1421 chinese coin in California as they would the ship's anchor, there would be some other firsts to fall.
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