History of money: why did we settle on metal for money instead of something else ?

Question

For example most regions had a rural/ agrarian economy and could have used cattle horns. It would have represented their amount of cattle they had and therefore their actual wealth.
I think there is a small group of people in africa doing something like that with fish right now.

So why settle for metal coins?

In: Economics

Answer 1

Metal lasts long, is easy to carry, looks rich, sounds cool, cannot be easily duplicated as well. All these qualities contributed for metal being at the top of all other choices.