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by netbioserror
966 days ago
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As early as the Bronze Age, Britain was part of wide-spanning trade networks that funneled Cornwallish tin to the empires of the Near East. I would imagine that even before the invention of true coinage, various quantities of gold and other precious metals were circulating in Britain from those Mediterranean sources. |
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Note that while Great Britain didn't have a whole lot of gold, it did have a whole lot of tin.
You can't make bronze without tin. People who want to make bronze will give you gold for it.