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> Pretty much any empire ever founded was built on a gold standard.

Ahistorical bullshit.

Gold coinage was never really a big thing, because gold was too rare to make gold coins for everyday usage feasible. Pretty much all historical empires used primarily silver coins. The UK pound used to be a literal pound of silver.




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