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Did Joseph Smith claim that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold"?

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Critics make light of Joseph Smith's claim that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold."

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Whatever one thinks of Joseph's conduct in connection with the Kirtland Safety Society, this promise came true.

Brigham Young redeemed Kirtland Safety Society scrip for gold in Utah.
"Brigham Young needn't have gone to such pains to ensure that this prophecy was fulfilled. Today [1977] these notes are worth far more than the exchange rate between currency and gold."^[1]

Notes

[note] Marvin S. Hill, Keith C. Rooker and Larry T. Wimmer, "The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics," Brigham Young University Studies 17 no. 4 (Summer 1977), 445, and footnote 113. PDF link