And if that is true I would have been a highwayman and taken alot of gold necklaces.
This would also would have been a disadvantage in bartering because anyone that you attempt to barter with would see the amount that you had.That is why wealthy people had slaves some of them had the job of of going out and buying things so that the master to sit around his house or in another wealthy persons home wearing their gold which was really used more as a status symbol to other wealthy people.