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Gold and silver as money - reasons and relevance today

Mineweb | July 09, 2011 | 7:47 pm Energy Precious Metals Gold Silver 

The need for a stable means of exchange is as old as mankind. Cigarettes, seashells, salt, goats, dried fish, or paper all fulfilled that role at some point. Their scarceness in relation to annual production made them bad items of...

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