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"This is a great deal of food," I said, "to have been purchased by seventeen copper tarsks, and two tarsk bits". - (Mercenaries of Gor, Chapter 6, Sentence #38)

I pondered the likely prices of a stuffed mushroom in a black-market transaction in a war-torn district, one turned into a near desert by the predations of organized foragers, in particular, the price of such a mushroom perhaps diverted at great hazard from the tables of Cosian generals. "Have two," said Hurtha. My heart suddenly began to beat with great alarm. "This is a great deal of food," I said, "to have been purchased by seventeen copper tarsks, and two tarsk bits". That was, as I recalled, the sum total of the monetary wealth which Hurtha had brought with him to the supply train, that or something much in its neighborhood. "Oh," said Hurtha, "it cost more than that". "I had thought it might," I said. - (Mercenaries of Gor)