Excerpt from Historical Summary of Metallic Money The metals used were naturally those at hand. In Lydia and part of Asia Minor gold was abundant, While in Lycia and Greece there was much silver, and in Egypt, Sicily, and Italy copper was the prevailing metal. These three metals must be considered as pre-emi uently the money metals, and they have come down to us as such; while iron, tin, and plati num were only employed temporarily, and never became engrafted in any system permanently. This fact must not be forgotten; for, although copper has played a subordinate part in mod ern times, it is still one of the three money metals, and at one period was as much regard ed in the light Of a measure of value as either Silver or gold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.