> Pretty much any empire ever founded was built on a gold standard. Ahistorical bullshit. Gold coinage was never really a big thing, because gold was too rare

> Pretty much any empire ever founded was built on a gold standard. Ahistorical bullshit. Gold coinage was never really a big thing, because gold was too rare to make gold coins for everyday usage feasible. Pretty much all historical empires used primarily silver coins. The UK pound used to be a literal pound of silver.