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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 2456045, member: 78244&quot;]Silver was mostly used in ingots and things called sycees, as was gold, but anything ancient is incredibly rare. We know that there was an ancient monetary system for gold and silver, which was divided up into catties. A cattie of precious metal was about four ounces today. I think the exchange rate from bronze to gold was 10000 wu zhu worth of copper for one cattie of gold. Silver was somewhere between 1000 and 2000 wu zhus per cattie. If one remembers Wang Mang and his &quot;key&quot; coinage, every citizen in China had to turn in their gold for those key coins, which were demonetized two years later, destroying the wealth of China.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, there are bronze imitation cowries that have gold plate on them, so gold was used to some degree in ancient times.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china2.htm#interregnum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china2.htm#interregnum" rel="nofollow">http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china2.htm#interregnum</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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