Questions about Alternate Worldline Design.

[Rowan]

Originally Posted by vierasmarius

If copper and its alloys are available, they are likely to see use as weapons and tools. I suspect that gold and silver were used so frequently as currency is because they were largely useless in practical roles. If you want stone and obsidian to be used for weapons, you'll need to limit copper as well. What little of it that's available would likely show up in the hands of the richest warriors, as Good-quality daggers, spears and axes.

That's a good idea. Does this marginalization apply only to copper, or would I need to do likewise to tin and zinc? I'm wondering what these folks might use for coinage if their isn't a dearth of available metals.