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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;faceglider, post: 1581724, member: 32190&quot;]Yes, I know.&nbsp; It scares me!&nbsp; I am particularly interested in the period that historians, that I have confronted, refer to as the &#039;Forgotten President Years&#039; (1865 - 1901).&nbsp; I have been studying the impact that money in China had on Eurasia.&nbsp; My hypothetical hypothesis is basically this:&nbsp; Silver was hard to counterfeit.&nbsp; China had woodblock printing as far back as the Sung dynasty, I think (maybe in the Tang).&nbsp; Paper money was so interesting and new then, but it was soon realized that something had to back it.&nbsp; Also, it was easily counterfeited.&nbsp; Silver was hard to find, the government, or prefectures, could control it, and it was identifiable as authentic more easily than the paper currency.&nbsp; Anyway,&nbsp; Ughh.&nbsp; I pick big theses. Is there a comprehensive history of silver?&nbsp; Not that I know of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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