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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2587129, member: 72790&quot;]The Ancients were quite familiar with copper (recall the &quot;Bronze Age&quot;) as a metal and could have made small size copper coins for storing in one&#039;s mouth at a time when pockets and purses were still uncommon. They did not because copper tastes awful. Try sucking on a two cent piece for 20 minutes and a tiny silver piece tastes pretty good. Actually no taste at all, which is why dentists have used gold and silver for centuries. And in a pinch (or a robbery) you could swallow the tiny silver coins the size of vitamin pill and retrieve them from one&#039;s, well, later on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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