Goldsmiths were able to practice an early form of fractional reserve banking because they knew that
A) people were relatively unsophisticated in their financial transactions.
B) gold was the major form of money.
C) not all depositors would claim their gold at the same time.
D) gold did not serve as a unit of account.
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