Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 52 | 749 | Otherwise they would not have sold you, and, I suppose, would have slain me". |
| 52 | 750 | "That is more than forty-eight copper tarsks," I said. |
| 52 | 751 | "More than four times as much," he said, "as Brundisium counts tarsks". |
| 52 | 752 | I knew there were considerable differences in coinages from city to city. |
| 52 | 753 | Gorean polities are fiercely independent, and many are substantially isolated from the others. |
| 52 | 754 | That is why money changers commonly rely on scales, at least for gold and silver. |
| 52 | 755 | For example, in some cities there are eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk, and in others, such as Brundisium, a major commercial port, a hundred tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk. |
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Otherwise they would not have sold you, and, I suppose, would have slain me".
"That is more than forty-eight copper tarsks," I said.
"More than four times as much," he said, "as Brundisium counts tarsks".
I knew there were considerable differences in coinages from city to city.
Gorean polities are fiercely independent, and many are substantially isolated from the others.
That is why money changers commonly rely on scales, at least for gold and silver.
For example, in some cities there are eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk, and in others, such as Brundisium, a major commercial port, a hundred tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk.
- (Smugglers of Gor, Chapter )