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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1272506, member: 22143&quot;]This misses the point of the difference between metal being used to make currency as opposed to metal used AS currency.&nbsp;&nbsp; All of these metals at one time in history were quite valuable because smelting ore into metal was a difficult, dangerous and labor intensive process.&nbsp; Copper, bronze, etc at one time was very rare, in some cases more rare than gold.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What people don&#039;t always understand is the value of the currency was the metal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Government coining of the metal only establised a common unit of measure and convenient assay of said metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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