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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1554451, member: 26302&quot;]I have never read of any time in ancient history where gold&gt;silver&gt;copper was not followed. If it was, it was a really weird, isolated, very short time. Since all three are easily minable, their value always followed supply, and gold being the rarest was valued the highest.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually have some fourree cores, where the plating has flaked off. They were basically bronze/lead for silver, lead for gold. The lead was not as heavy as gold, so it was harder for counterfeiters to be successful with those, (Pt and similar metals being unknown to the ancients, so gold was by far the heaviest metal).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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