Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 30 | 91 | View more quotes about accordingly">Accordingly, much transaction in various markets and "Streets of Coins," takes place with scales. |
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 30 | 88 | A shaved coin is one from which a clip or filings of metal have been removed, which clips or filings, melted down in sufficient numbers, may be reformed into new coins, plates, or ingots. |
| 30 | 89 | Copper, of course, and bronze, is seldom shaved. |
| 30 | 90 | On the continent silver and gold coins are not unoften shaved. |
| 30 | 91 | Accordingly, much transaction in various markets and "Streets of Coins," takes place with scales. |
| 30 | 92 | Valuable coins, of course, might also be debased, but if the coins are minted, struck by hammers from the molds, that is commonly done by a municipal authority, publicized or not. |
| 30 | 93 | Much depends on trust, of course. |
| 30 | 94 | For example is it not surprising, if one stops to consider it, that something of value, say, a fukuro of rice, or a slave, might be exchanged for a tiny piece of metal, of whatever sort? I had heard of one city in which the state had issued small black leather packets sewn shut, which packets were alleged to contain a golden tarsk. |
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A shaved coin is one from which a clip or filings of metal have been removed, which clips or filings, melted down in sufficient numbers, may be reformed into new coins, plates, or ingots.
Copper, of course, and bronze, is seldom shaved.
On the continent silver and gold coins are not unoften shaved.
Accordingly, much transaction in various markets and "Streets of Coins," takes place with scales.
Valuable coins, of course, might also be debased, but if the coins are minted, struck by hammers from the molds, that is commonly done by a municipal authority, publicized or not.
Much depends on trust, of course.
For example is it not surprising, if one stops to consider it, that something of value, say, a fukuro of rice, or a slave, might be exchanged for a tiny piece of metal, of whatever sort? I had heard of one city in which the state had issued small black leather packets sewn shut, which packets were alleged to contain a golden tarsk.
- (Rebels of Gor)