Cattle Herding... (was Re: in praise of gold)

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Fri Nov 23 16:13:33 PST 2001


Pecunia, the latin word for money, comes from the Etruscian pecu, meaning, cow.

Cheers,
RAH

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