> any metal they can sell as scrap We’re talking about tiny pieces of copper, though. Would it really have been that expensive to be worth the trouble (unless

> any metal they can sell as scrap We’re talking about tiny pieces of copper, though. Would it really have been that expensive to be worth the trouble (unless you had a bag of them) > but I think it was either very important to some ritual, or very practical to some trade. Why? We know that premodern people often spent significant amounts of money/resources on things that were neither practical nor had any religious importance