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>>49981199
If you really think that you're a tourist. It's not popular as an investment metal but plenty of anons in here have some and it gets mentioned regularly, yet few people care to focus on it. Historically it's not that significant, and no nations have used it as a currency standard. It's too rare compared to gold, silver, and copper in that regard but scarcity alone doesn't imbue value. It used to simply be a byproduct of mining desirable metals, seen as an impurity in gold, until it was properly identified and made usable. Now it has industrial applications but those come with health risks enough to warrant exposure limits. That's bad juju compared to the magical properties of the big three. Pure platinum is inert but that's the result of very intense refinement. It feels like a modern manufactured commodity that certain people want to convince you is comparable to gold in value as a distraction, but maybe that's just my inner schizo typing. In a societal collapse scenario it would be hard to barter with due to being so uncommon. Too few people are familiar enough to know how to trust it when everyone else is using recognizable metals.