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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2277506, member: 26302&quot;]You are 100% correct about tin. From southern Thailand throughout the archipelago tin was used in place of copper as the base to coinage. This is also why silver was the base of coinage in this area of the world, and not gold. There were not many gold mines, but many tin/lead mines. Tin/lead mines naturally also produce silver, so the only precious metal found in any abundance in the area was silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the area would have had large copper mines, then they would have had large amounts of both gold and silver, (like Europe), so would have probably, (like Europe), been more bimetallic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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