sentences:  Government-controlled money is also postulated to be more stable than credit money or commodity money.Coins have been claimed to represent an advance over weighing out precious metals with a fixed amount of precious metal being stamped so they need not be weighed and could be exchanged more conveniently than lumps of metal which needed to be weighed.The 13th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference was held at the University Center, in Chicago, September 2017.