Recently, I have found the discovery of a Frankfurt silver inscription, a 3rd century Christian Latin scripture on a piece of silver foil. As no one posted about it in SN, I wanted to share my opinion on it.

The context is the @SimpleStacker's post (#1212809) on the possible consequent side-usage of money to store data. He drew a parallel between Bitcoin and gold, as he found an ancient Persian inscription on a golden tablet.

With that in mind, I researched on that usage for other moneys, to see if that tendency could be more common. And I found one example of silver being used to inscribe information.

So, I wonder if this secondary usage could be plausible, and how many examples of it could be lying out there, maybe in a more indirect manner like using symbolic association to “inscribe data”.

Nevertheless, if anyone is curious to read on the archaeological discovery itself, you can read these articles below:

Overall information from the museum itself:
https://archaeologisches-museum-frankfurt.de/index.php/en/#:~:text=The%20inscription%20was%20deciphered%20thanks,the%20age%20of%20the%20find

Archaeological article:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/12/16/frankfurt-silver-inscription/#:~:text=At%20the%20Archaeological%20Museum%20in,and%20create%20a%203D%20model

Wikipedia’s detailed information:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/12/16/frankfurt-silver-inscription/#:~:text=At%20the%20Archaeological%20Museum%20in,and%20create%20a%203D%20model