metallist

noun3

1. •
   A person who works with metals.
2. •
   An advocate of metal coinage as the principal or sole currency.

   • No economist, with the possible exception of the most doctrinaire metallists, have ever expressed any other opinion. --American Economic Review (1938) 28, p. 316
   • While not all Jacksonians were Metallists, or vice versa, the Jacksonian Metallists sought to purge the currency of small bank notes and replace them with gold and silver coins. --Exploring Economic History (1974) 11, p. 228
3. •
   A metaller: a fan of the metal music genre.