>>60687738
>the ancients didn't have the tech to separate gold from silver back then.
they did, but silver was actually worth a lot more than gold prior to coins being invented.

Silver wasn't very common in ancient egypt and babylon. It took thousands of years for people to find good sources of silver.

In ancient egypt silver was more valuable than gold because it was rarer

in ancient egypt meteorite iron was more valuable than gold or silver

in the 1800's aluminum was more valuable than gold. Eventually the price declined to around the value of silver. Then it very suddenly dropped to almost nothing.