Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 19 | 71 | View more quotes about further">Further, the debasing of coinage is not unknown. |
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 19 | 68 | Ten silver tarsks, usually, is regarded as the equivalent of one gold piece, of one of the high cities. |
| 19 | 69 | To be sure, there is little standardization in these matters, for much depends on the actual weights of the coins and the quantities of precious metals, certified by the municipal stamps, contained in the coins. |
| 19 | 70 | Sometimes, too, coins are split or shaved. |
| 19 | 71 | Further, the debasing of coinage is not unknown. |
| 19 | 72 | Scales, and rumors, it seems, are often used by coin merchants. |
| 19 | 73 | One of the central coins on Gor is the golden tarn disk of Ar, against which many cities standardize their own gold piece. |
| 19 | 74 | Other generally respected coins tend to be the silver tarsk of Tharna, the golden tarn disk of Ko-ro-ba, and the golden tarn of Port Kar, the latter particularly on the western Vosk, in the Tamber Gulf region, and a few hundred pasangs north and south of the Vosk's delta. |
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Ten silver tarsks, usually, is regarded as the equivalent of one gold piece, of one of the high cities.
To be sure, there is little standardization in these matters, for much depends on the actual weights of the coins and the quantities of precious metals, certified by the municipal stamps, contained in the coins.
Sometimes, too, coins are split or shaved.
Further, the debasing of coinage is not unknown.
Scales, and rumors, it seems, are often used by coin merchants.
One of the central coins on Gor is the golden tarn disk of Ar, against which many cities standardize their own gold piece.
Other generally respected coins tend to be the silver tarsk of Tharna, the golden tarn disk of Ko-ro-ba, and the golden tarn of Port Kar, the latter particularly on the western Vosk, in the Tamber Gulf region, and a few hundred pasangs north and south of the Vosk's delta.
- (Rogue of Gor)