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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2895390, member: 66&quot;]So does aluminum.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other advantage of gold and silver is that they both can be found naturally in their metallic state ( although it is less likely for silver) and both a fairly resistant to corrosion.&nbsp; This made gold and silver the first metals to be worked and cherished.&nbsp; Copper and tin and iron came next.&nbsp; Copper was a durable metal and available enough that it was useful for tools and weapons, especially once they learned to alloy it with Tin to make bronze which was stronger and more corrosion resistant.&nbsp; Iron was too plentiful in most cases to be valuable enough for coinage, plus they had the problem that with the crude smelting methods they had the metal was very susceptible to corrosion, but its strength made it a natural for weapons and some other uses where durability was important.&nbsp; Most of the other metals were not isolated until the &quot;modern era&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course gold and silver represented a lot of value in a small easily transported package.&nbsp; A given value in gold or silver would have been easy to carry while the same value in copper might need a cart,&nbsp; while iron might need several.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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