Which money is best? Silver!

16 May 2022

They don’t call it a pound karat. It’s not the family gold you show off at dinner parties. The dollar is not called the doubloon. And the yuan isn’t called the Jīnzi.

Why? Because silver is the best form of money!

Find out why, and why silver was lost taken away, in my favourite episode so far. You won’t believe the rabbit holes we go down…

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