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Originally Posted by j.p.s
250 years ago aluminum was more expensive than silver, 2500 years ago salt (sodium chloride) was pretty expensive. Cheap gold and platinum would be great. It's not like it won't take a while to move the stuff in volume at low cost, not to speak of being able to do it at all.
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Aluminium wasn't discovered until 1807 (Humphrey Davy), but yeah, it was used in jewelry and stuff like that in the beginning.