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Suppose that gold did not exist . . .

OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
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. . . what difference would that have made in the development of our coinage system? What would be the primary monetary metal today? Silver? Platinum? Something else?

What's your theory?

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  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Almost anything deemed "hard to get" would likely work.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    This would surely impact what chocolate coins would be wrapped in.

    Not only a matter of hard to obtrain metal, but what metal demonstrates some of the qualities of gold, resistive to corrosion, great conductor of electricity, eye appeal.....
  • FishyOneFishyOne Posts: 376

    "This would surely impact what chocolate coins would be wrapped in."

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