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Gresham’s Law: bad money (e.g., coins containing cheaper metal than the precious metals that they are specified to contain) drives out good money (which is stockpiled or otherwise removed from Imagine that the ‘good money’ of Logs coins or notes could be cut up into ten parts, each of which retained the same purchasing power of a full Log. These parts might be called ‘pounds’. Soon enough, there would be no Logs in circulation. circulation). For more on Gresham’s Law, see, for instance, www.britannica.com/topic/Greshams-law .