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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mackwork, post: 1603096, member: 35676&quot;]I did some searching, and while the 1868 price of aluminum wasn&#039;t quite as high as gold, it would appear to have been much higher than silver at that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold</p><p>1868 18.93</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Silver</p><p>1868&nbsp; 1.747</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Aluminum (price NA for in between years)</p><p>1850 17.00</p><p>1868&nbsp; ?&nbsp; (I assume between 17.00 &amp; 9.00)</p><p>1872&nbsp;&nbsp; 9.00</p><p>1887&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.00</p><p>1888-1894 NA, but price was really dropping)</p><p>1895 0.587</p><p>1896 0.507</p><p>1897 0.390</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sources (Gold, Aluminum, Silver)</p><p><a href="http://www.nma.org/pdf/gold/his_gold_prices.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nma.org/pdf/gold/his_gold_prices.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.nma.org/pdf/gold/his_gold_prices.pdf</a></p><p><a href="http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/aluminum/050798.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/aluminum/050798.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/aluminum/050798.pdf</a></p><p><a href="http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx" rel="nofollow">http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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