Skill issue, should have stole the things that gold & silver could buy instead.
hadaev on
I guess you cant eat gold.
Comprehensive-Fail41 on
Who’d have guessed a sudden massive influx of previously rare materials that serve as the basis for your currency could result in a hyperinflation crisis?
Avtsla on
When you steal so much gold and silver that you flood the market and the price of said metals drops leaving you at starting position ( and now you also have an enormous empire to take care of as a bonus )
ozferment on
give them a break they just discovered the inflation
Some_Cockroach2109 on
Turns out the Spanish weren’t as good at looting people as the English
Moose-Rage on
Sometimes I think the Spanish just weren’t very smart.
SecretSpectre11 on
The Soviets yoinking all of their gold: “perfectly balanced, as all things should be”
AviWandering on
Spent it all on sombreros
who_knows_how on
Wow almost i like Currency doesn’t make you rich
watergosploosh on
Turns out goods and services are more important than shiny metals. Huh, who would have guessed?
Falitoty on
“Steal” Man It was their territory, they were merely exploting their territory. Or are we gona consider the roman gold mines in Iberia as the Roman stealing Spain gold?
Rhaguen on
Piet Hein Intensifies
JA_Pascal on
I will never refuse to bring up the fact that Spaniards thought platinum was worthless outside of being used to counterfeit gold so they dumped their entire supply into the sea and threw it into rivers
2nW_from_Markus on
Half went to pay mercenaries in (stupid) Flanders, so went to pay beer and bitches.
The other half is still in display inside churches, mostly in AndalucÃa.
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Skill issue, should have stole the things that gold & silver could buy instead.
I guess you cant eat gold.
Who’d have guessed a sudden massive influx of previously rare materials that serve as the basis for your currency could result in a hyperinflation crisis?
When you steal so much gold and silver that you flood the market and the price of said metals drops leaving you at starting position ( and now you also have an enormous empire to take care of as a bonus )
give them a break they just discovered the inflation
Turns out the Spanish weren’t as good at looting people as the English
Sometimes I think the Spanish just weren’t very smart.
The Soviets yoinking all of their gold: “perfectly balanced, as all things should be”
Spent it all on sombreros
Wow almost i like Currency doesn’t make you rich
Turns out goods and services are more important than shiny metals. Huh, who would have guessed?
“Steal” Man It was their territory, they were merely exploting their territory. Or are we gona consider the roman gold mines in Iberia as the Roman stealing Spain gold?
Piet Hein Intensifies
I will never refuse to bring up the fact that Spaniards thought platinum was worthless outside of being used to counterfeit gold so they dumped their entire supply into the sea and threw it into rivers
Half went to pay mercenaries in (stupid) Flanders, so went to pay beer and bitches.
The other half is still in display inside churches, mostly in AndalucÃa.
Another 20 trillion to German mercenaries