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> Assuming the culture you are in has the means to reach those temperatures. A silver coin may be no more than a shiny trinket to those cultures that do not hav
by goatsi 6y ago
> Assuming the culture you are in has the means to reach those temperatures. A silver coin may be no more than a shiny trinket to those cultures that do not have that (level of) technology.
Silver has a slightly lower melting point than copper, so any culture that has reached a bronze age level of knowledge can handle it (or even just one with half decent pottery kilns).
- Turing_Machine 6y agoMelting silver is one thing. Making good coins is quite another. The first really good British coins, with totally uniform diameter, thickness, and design, milled edges, and so on, were made by (once again) Isaac Newton. There had been coins of a sort for well over a thousand years by then, but they basically sucked. They were essentially raw lumps of metal that had a design hand-hammered into them. They looked more like a bad sealing wax impression than anything we'd recognize as a coin today. Identifying a good coin was difficult.