The Vikings had “hacksilver,” which was literally silver jewelry, ornaments, cups, whatever, cut up and used by weight. Is that the sort of thing you mean?
(I mean, it’s still assigning value to the metal, but it has to have value to be used as payment, so…?)
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(I mean, it’s still assigning value to the metal, but it has to have value to be used as payment, so…?)