eli5 what made people think that silver was such a precious resource?
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Silver isn’t very common. It’s nice to look at. Easy to make into jewelry. And is useful. It’s almost as good at that all as gold.
It would be traded at value, but then got standardized in coins.
We still use these precious metals for technology today which hella keep their value up.
Other metals have been valuable to. Aluminum was very expensive until we found how to mass produce it easily
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