By the middle of the sixteenth century, financiers and traders commonly accepted bills of exchange in place of gold or silver for other goods.

到了16世纪中叶，金融家和商人普遍接受汇票来代替黄金或白银进行商品交换。

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A century ago almost all the world's currencies were linked to gold and most of the rest to silver.

一个世纪以前，世界上几乎所有的货币都和黄金关联，其余的大部分和白银关联。

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Before the early nineteenth century, books were hand-bound using heavy materials such as wood, leather, gold, silver and jewels.

十九世纪早期以前，书籍都是使用笨重的材料，如木头、皮革、金、银和宝石等手工装订而成的。

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In 1993,Spiegler earned the gratitude of the Republic of Turkey for recovering 6th century gold and silver treasures which had been stolen by tomb raiders and eventually sold to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Her office has stumbled upon items, such as a 17th-century silver altar ornament, that were sold to be melted down as scrap.

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The religious and secular authorities then drink wine from a sixteenth-century silver goblet containing tiny live fish, which has recently become a controversial custom.

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In the late 19th century, silver mines put Leadville, Colo.

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