Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 236 | This is View more quotes about apparently">apparently indexed to the ease of dividing a round coin into equal parts. |
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 233 | This allowed a subtlety, a delicacy and precision, of bidding, particularly for smaller articles. |
| 3 | 234 | The values of Gorean currency, particularly to the annoyance of the caste of merchants, varies considerably from city to city, with respect to weight, to purity of metal, and even denomination. |
| 3 | 235 | In many cities for example, there were only four or eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk. |
| 3 | 236 | This is apparently indexed to the ease of dividing a round coin into equal parts. |
| 3 | 237 | The tarsk-bits of Brundisium, however, were individual tiny copper coins, either small disks or tiny droplets of copper. |
| 3 | 238 | Given such vagaries, and the shaving of coins, particularly those of more precious metals, scales are often used in transactions, certainly in a polity's "Streets of Coins". |
| 3 | 239 | Fortunes, I have been told, have been made in speculating on the shifting, comparable values of these diverse coinages. |
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This allowed a subtlety, a delicacy and precision, of bidding, particularly for smaller articles.
The values of Gorean currency, particularly to the annoyance of the caste of merchants, varies considerably from city to city, with respect to weight, to purity of metal, and even denomination.
In many cities for example, there were only four or eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk.
This is apparently indexed to the ease of dividing a round coin into equal parts.
The tarsk-bits of Brundisium, however, were individual tiny copper coins, either small disks or tiny droplets of copper.
Given such vagaries, and the shaving of coins, particularly those of more precious metals, scales are often used in transactions, certainly in a polity's "Streets of Coins".
Fortunes, I have been told, have been made in speculating on the shifting, comparable values of these diverse coinages.
- (Quarry of Gor)