Talk:Bronze Dragon/@comment-6656436-20130828012816/@comment-6656436-20130829054925

/facepalm

By bringing up coinage, you just deconstructed your entire argument. Yes, bronze was used in coinage... as was copper... as was nickel... and a lot of various metals and alloys.

You know why they were used in coinage? Because their value was considerably less than precious metals. Bronze coins, like copper coins, were solely made for circulation and were assigned a value by the minting country. The face value of the coin had to be considerably less so that people wouldn't melt down the coin and keep the metal.

This is why gold and silver coinage became less and less common as civilizations began to rise. Outside of "treasure", you would never see a gold or silver coin minted for circulation... it would only be minted for royalty or ceremonial purposes.

Bronze, copper, nickel, etc, were CHEAP metals that could easily be used for coins because they had little value.

Bronze is NOT "treasure".