So what happened to all those Senines, Seons, Shums, and Limnahs?

Metals used as a medium of exchange aren't thrown away, they're transformed into something else -- in the real world that is...


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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/silver-coin-boom-in-medieval-england-due-to-melted-down-byzantine-treasures-study-reveals


Several decades after the Sutton Hoo burial, starting in about AD660, there was a sudden rise in the number of silver coins in circulation in England, for reasons that have long puzzled archaeologists and historians.

The new rush of silver coinage stimulated trade and helped fuel the development of the new towns springing up at the time – but where did it come from? Were the Anglo-Saxon kings recycling old Roman scrap metal? Or had they found lucrative sources from mines in Europe?

Metallurgical analysis of early medieval coins has revealed the answer: the power brokers of the time were melting down their stockpiles of Byzantine silver treasures, in a type of early medieval quantitative easing that kickstarted the economy of England and established a monetary system that would last for a millennium.

Chemical analysis of coins from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed two distinct phases of the silver rush. For almost a century from the 660s, coins were minted from silver bullion that originated in the Byzantine empire on the eastern Mediterranean. Then, after stocks of those treasures were drying up in about 750, silver from a mine in western France came to predominate across Europe, during the reign of Charlemagne.

Mormons would argue that BoM coinage is still piled up in the legendary city of El Dorado.

The leprechaun's pot of gold at the end of the rainbow has not been recovered either.

Shortly after arriving in the salt lake valley, workers were digging a trench in what I believe is now pioneer park.

They uncovered several silver coins with squiggly writing on them.

Most of the coins were turned over to the church.

W. W. Phelps was shown the coins and provided a translation.

For many years they were on display on temple square. I remember seeing them when I was very young.

Touted as "Indian" coins, or locally as "Nephite" coins.

Well.....they were partially correct. The coins are indeed Indian coins, from India, dating to the mid 1700s.

They were eventually pulled from the display at temple square and are supposedly in the church vault.

The prevailing theory is that they were brought by British trappers who obtained them from British ports on the west coast.

The British of course operated the East India Company. With rondevous being held near present day Cache county, it wouldn't be inconceivable that trappers would use such coins in trade.

Ok still can't post links, but a search of Nephite Coin Utah brought up a story on KSL.com along with a picture.

Was Liberty park, not pioneer park.

The Byzantine Empire was the Millennial Reign of Christ.