2,600 Years of Gold Coins

illinoissilverman
Oct 20, 2022
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People separated by time and oceans have found a few things in common. Gold is one of them. Before anyone from the Eurasian-African land mass visited the other hemisphere and came back to tell about it the native people of America from Chile to Texas were extracting gold and treasuring it.

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