Question
1:53 PM Sun Mar 5
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H.1 Read and understand informational passages
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) A world record was broken in July 2002, when a coin was auctioned in New York City
for 7.6 million dollars. This particular 1933 double eagle became the most expensive
piece of currency ever sold. Double eagles were manufactured by the United States
Mint from 1849 through 1933. They are gold coins with a face value of twenty dollars,
just as a nickel is worth five cents. A total of 445,500 double eagles were produced in
1933 alone. So how could just one of these twenty-dollar coins be worth so much
money?
2 When Franklin Roosevelt became president of the United States on March 4, 1933, the
country was already in the middle of the Great Depression. This severe financial slump
Based on the text, what was the purpose of Executive Order 6102?
to refill the U.S. central bank's shrinking
supply of gold
to encourage people to hoard paper
money instead of gold
to allow the U.S. central bank to print
more paper money
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Answer
The text does not provide information on the purpose of Executive Order 6102.