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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1248553, member: 26302&quot;]I collect ancient coins and I know the reason silver and gold were used for them. It is simply that they were available metals, (most metals we have today were unknown in pure forms to the ancient world), and were in enough supply to allow coinage, but weren&#039;t common enough to lose their value.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s it really. Had platinum been known and enough around it would have been used as coinage as well, same with palladium, aluminum, molybdenum, etc etc. There simply is not a lot of easy to smelt metals with somewhat limited supply to choose from. Only other alternatives were copper, iron, tin, and lead. All of these at times were also used for coinage, but mostly found to be too common to be valuable in a small form.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is nothing magical, mystical, about these metals, and God did not hand them down dictating only these are &quot;money&quot;. Its simply what was available and most easily used as a medium of exchange. Their small size but relatively high trade value simply made them most practical.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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