Garfield County News | 1931-11-20 | Page 4 | Coinage Still Largest Use for Silver, Society Says

COINAGE STILL LARGEST USE FOR SILVER SOCIETY SAYS PAYS 4 washington Sil silver vw ruled the money market tor for 2000 years until it was unseated during the century by gold stul still is used for coinage more alian than for any other purpose isaas ya I 1 a bulletin from washington headquarters of the national goo geo society 1 when abraham paid in 1 sli silver ver a gravo for his wife years ago one of tile the first payments Ina In ilver silver was waa recorded the early use of silver alif as money was in the form of ingots ingols seven hundred years before the christian era tho the lydiann struck off tile the first coin containing silver it was an alloy of gold and silver aliver silver coins were mined in britain in 50 D C the me tiled filed usurped Ilir ped alq otherwise ted the coins and attempted to exchange them at face value the practice was waa so general that henry I 1 promulgated a law lav whereby the mutilators latora lost a hand as aa a penalty silver succeeded copper as the dominant money metal about two centuries time the