In the West at least, if they did it was so long ago that it's not really recoverable. Silver and gold coins were part of the cash supply of the Roman Empire and in the Byzantine/medieval variant it endured into well, medieval times as such. The use of metal as currency tends to be connected much moreso to strong states than to weak ones.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
(no subject)