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

georgemw at speakeasy.net georgemw at speakeasy.net
Mon Nov 26 17:21:07 PST 2001


On 23 Nov 2001, at 19:13, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

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

And of course the German word for money is Gelt, which means 
Gold. 

Cows might have served well as currency for primitives like the 
Etruscans, but can you imagine using them today?  I took
a bus this morning, the fair was 1.10 and I only had paper money
so they ripped me off 90 cents.  But if I was an Etruscan, they
would've taken my whole cow! 

George
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