Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 26 | 48 | One threads one or more such coins on a string, the string fastened about the bottom and top coin, or loops a string through several coins, and ties the loop shut above the top coin. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 26 | 45 | These shells were not typical Pani currency, which, for the most part, consisted of metal coins, of silver, gold, and copper, of various certified weights, struck by various shoguns. |
| 26 | 46 | As on the continent there is no common currency, but a variety of currencies, which often entails rumors, scales, bargainings, and such. |
| 26 | 47 | Many of these coins, not all, were perforated in the center. |
| 26 | 48 | One threads one or more such coins on a string, the string fastened about the bottom and top coin, or loops a string through several coins, and ties the loop shut above the top coin. |
| 26 | 49 | In this way the coins are kept together, perhaps tied about one's waist, under the clothing, or put about one's neck, under the clothing, or simply dropped into a pouch, usually of silk. |
| 26 | 50 | Lesser Pani sometimes, on errands, carry the coin or coins in the mouth, rather as slaves may on the continent, and on the islands, while marketing for their masters. |
| 26 | 51 | The marked shells, then, I gathered, were rather in the nature of a form of script. |
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These shells were not typical Pani currency, which, for the most part, consisted of metal coins, of silver, gold, and copper, of various certified weights, struck by various shoguns.
As on the continent there is no common currency, but a variety of currencies, which often entails rumors, scales, bargainings, and such.
Many of these coins, not all, were perforated in the center.
One threads one or more such coins on a string, the string fastened about the bottom and top coin, or loops a string through several coins, and ties the loop shut above the top coin.
In this way the coins are kept together, perhaps tied about one's waist, under the clothing, or put about one's neck, under the clothing, or simply dropped into a pouch, usually of silk.
Lesser Pani sometimes, on errands, carry the coin or coins in the mouth, rather as slaves may on the continent, and on the islands, while marketing for their masters.
The marked shells, then, I gathered, were rather in the nature of a form of script.
- (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 26)