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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prime Mover, post: 1632535, member: 38783&quot;]I don&#039;t disagree with you, but to play devil&#039;s advocate, I think the assumption that silver and gold will always be seen as innately valuable seems to be a fairly safe one given how far back in recorded history you hear of copper, silver and gold pieces being valued and used as &quot;money&quot;.&nbsp; Humans have elevated those precious metals to higher status because of whatever reasons, but they have stayed elevated for millennia and could very well continue on for more millennia.&nbsp; Obviously there is no guarantee of that, you&#039;re correct that tomorrow someone could claim dandelion flowers as more precious than gold, and if it stuck, I&#039;d be the richest man in New Jersey looking at my yard... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, to your point of carved jade, there&#039;s been many things throughout history that have been held valuable and used for barter, or for argument&#039;s sake, &quot;money&quot;. To me the whole concept of &quot;money&quot; is attaching a value of something I have, to something you want and vice versa.&nbsp; Heck, today&#039;s word &quot;salary&quot; is derived from the soldiers being compensated in salt, since back then salt was very valuable for curing and keeping meats from spoiling - those who had it were considered &quot;well off&quot;.&nbsp; But, I think (and please correct me if I&#039;m wrong), during those times they also used gold and silver as currency, so someone could by the salt from the soldier.&nbsp; Some value had to be attached to the gold/silver and the salt to make it an even trade, and that value was probably subjective.</p><p><br /></p><p>The value of today&#039;s PM&#039;s is only worth what people are willing to pay to get it, how much they desire the metal as well as supply and demand.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s all really subjective, and as long as the human psyche continues to consider those metals precious and valuable, they will hold value, which is quantifiable in today&#039;s paper monetary system.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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