Results Details

In some cities, there are eight copper-tarsks to a silver tarsk, and, in others, as in Brun­disium, where many land and sea routes converge, and business tends to be brisk, one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 10, Sentence #158)

"Forgive me. I meant fifty copper tarsks, say, of the weight of the copper tarsk of Brundisium". This meant little to me at the time, but I would learn that coinages might differ considerably from city to city. In some cities, there are eight copper-tarsks to a silver tarsk, and, in others, as in Brun­disium, where many land and sea routes converge, and business tends to be brisk, one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk. This facilitates small transactions. Too, coinages, certainly gold and silver, are often weighed when the coinage is of one city and the transaction takes place in another. This is sometimes done even when the coinage has been minted in the same city in which the transaction takes place, apparently because of the possibility of a private debasement of coins, the shaving of coins, and such. - (Plunder of Gor)