American Open Currency Standard American Open Currency Standard American Open Currency Standard (AOCS) is a non-profit organization opposed to fiat money and wishing to expedite the use of metal as money. In accordance with its mission, AOCS grants approval to new currencies, helps new currency issuers to establish brand identity, and encourages merchants to accept AOCS-approved currencies. AOCS was started in 2007 by Robert Gray, who was formerly a Regional Currency Office for Liberty Dollar and is currently the Executive Director of AOCS. Robert Gray testified before the United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology when congressman Ron Paul
Shall and will and "should" function as past tenses of "will" and "shall", their usage tends to correspond to that of the latter verbs ("would" is used analogously to "will", and "should" to "shall"). Thus "would" and "should" can be used with "future-in-the-past" meaning, to express what was expected to happen, or what in fact did happen, after some past time of reference. The use of "should" here (like that of "shall" as a plain future marker) is much less common and is generally confined to the first person. Examples: "Would" can also be used as the past equivalent of "will" in its