Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 30 | 93 | Much depends on trust, of View more quotes about course">course. |
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 30 | 95 | It was a capital offense in that state not to accept, and value, such a packet as containing a golden tarsk, and it was a capital offense, as well, to open such a packet, to see if it actually contained such a tarsk. |
| 30 | 96 | The problematicity involved here is obvious. |
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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.
It was a capital offense in that state not to accept, and value, such a packet as containing a golden tarsk, and it was a capital offense, as well, to open such a packet, to see if it actually contained such a tarsk.
The problematicity involved here is obvious.
- (Rebels of Gor)