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Because money is a store of wealth and precious metals are a good way to store wealth because they have a high value to weight ratio, are easily stored (gold/silver doesn't decay like food), and have a known rarity. Today, due to the fact that most countries no longer use the gold standard and no longer mint coins in precious metals for general circulation, the correspondence of value to metal no longer exists. But it used to be that a coin was simply a chunk of valuable metal, stamped with a design so people knew that it was genuine.

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Is money made out of paper?

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