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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1651252, member: 26302&quot;]Bill will have a better response, bit to &quot;tied you over&quot; until then, there are TONS of early uses of copper for money. Everyone on the PM boards like to say how gold and silver were the first money, that is pure baloney.</p><p><br /></p><p>Large copper ingots in the shape of a bull were used in the near east long before electrum coinage. Rome&#039;s first item for trade were cast lumps of copper. The Aztecs and Mayans were using proto-money in the shape of axes and hoes by the time the Spanish arrived. Copper is as much a monetary metal than any PM is historically.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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