Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 238 | View more quotes about given">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". |
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 3 | 240 | The double tarn, of gold, minted in the city of Ar, is usually accepted as the single, most valuable coin on Gor. |
| 3 | 241 | Many cities in the northern hemisphere, even cities hostile to Ar, supposedly, privately, use Ar's "Gold Tarn," the single Tarn, to rank, standardize, and value their own currency. |
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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.
The double tarn, of gold, minted in the city of Ar, is usually accepted as the single, most valuable coin on Gor.
Many cities in the northern hemisphere, even cities hostile to Ar, supposedly, privately, use Ar's "Gold Tarn," the single Tarn, to rank, standardize, and value their own currency.
- (Quarry of Gor)