Are we gonna have to ask Q to request POTUS to GET RID OF THE TRANNIES?!
#MemeWAR
The history of the coinage act is interesting, but still the dollar is defined as a certain amount of gold and silver, the latter being removed from circulation in 1965.
That said, you ask how come the dollars we use are not gold/silver or their certificates but Federal Reserve Notes?
To answer you would have to use logic. There are two different US'.