Re: Florin

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

>>  In those times, any given country's
>> mints spent a certain amount of time at striking the coins of foreign
>> governments.
>
>This is still practiced,
Well, I meant this mostly as a subversive activity. ;)

>except that it is often a legal agreement between
>two governments:  the US government, for example, produces a good
>chunk of all the currency of any country in the world.
From what I understand, we don't do this so much anymore. Certainly
we're producing money for "certain" countries, Ecuador for example;
but I've been told that the Mint's output of foreign coin has been
drastically reduced, if not stopped. Probably too busy making state
quarters and brassbux.

>ObConlang:  What do y'all call currencies in your languages, if any such
>exist?
Talarians have two denominations, the ticos and the rinar. The ticos
is a little brass ring and there are a thousand of them in a rinar,
which is a big silver ring.  Ticos, which also means 'trifle' or 'no
great thing' is of uncertain origin; while rinar, which means 'ring'
is derived from Germanic.  This will appear in a future translation
exercise. So be warned. :-)

The Kemrese use L/s/d in the predecimalisation British relations.
Pound is llifr in Brithenig, livoers in Kerno, pund in Scots and pound
in Bloody Saxon. I forget the words for shilling and penny in
Brithenig. Certain parts of the country prefer the ecu, which is six
pounds. (Some of) the rest of Europe has a monetary union also based
on a similar L/s/d scheme, though it is not worth as much as the
Kemrese pound.

Padraic.

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