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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1701706, member: 15199&quot;]The idea is mainly an Eurocentric one that metals were &#039;money&#039;. In the ANS vol. 1 , 2013 issue , the Article &quot;The Story of Mexico-Tenochtitlan&#039;s&nbsp; Lost Copper Coins of 1544-1550&quot; it tells of the Spanish efforts to switch the Mexitcas from their currency&nbsp; ( commodity ) of Cacao beans and Maize to copper and silver ( revealed to be an effort to get the Indians to think of copper and silver to be more valuable than cacao and copper, and go to secret mines ( with Spaniards following) to take it away from them). Starting in 1544, the Indians dumped between 13 and 27 million coins into the lakes surrounding then Mexico City. The Spanish gave up in 1563, and copper coins didn&#039;t return for 150 years. In the meantime traditional indigenous currencies such as the cacao bean, maize, blankets , etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>And yet these were not just &#039;savages&#039; as when the Spanish arrived, they described the city as &quot;The greatest city they had ever laid eyes on&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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