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

[Karsten M. Self]

on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:52:04AM -0800, David Honig (honig at sprynet.com)
wrote:
> At 05:21 PM 11/26/01 -0800, georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:
> >
> >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.

No.  Etruscan T-Bills.  Fertilized eggs.

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