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

[David Honig]

At 05:21 PM 11/26/01 -0800, georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:
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>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! 

You would have gotten a goat and two chickens in change.