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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1073165, member: 3011&quot;]Regarding 1, I have seen this repeated by others but I have never seen any verification of it with data.&nbsp; It seems to be another urban myth.&nbsp; From what I have seen, the ratio seemed to originate with the Bank of England in the late 1600&#039;s, but this might be wrong too.&nbsp; I doubt it was the case everywhere or even most places in the world for 2500 years.&nbsp; I don&#039;t even think that most parts of the world used bimetallic coinage for most of this period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding 2, China has long had a preference for silver as money and as a store of value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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