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1644 – The Largest Coin
- adammarples 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
- klyrs 4y agoHah, came to post the same link. Seriously. A 20kg copper plate is not exactly pocket change, but it doesn't hold a candle to 4 metric tons.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoSame. Got change for a 2 x 1m alabaster?
- rcv 4y ago> The ownership of a large stone, which would be too difficult to move, was established by its history as recorded in oral tradition, rather than by its location. Appending a transfer to the oral history of the stone thus effected a change of ownership So, like an NFT before they were cool?
- thisarticle 4y agoNFTs are cool now?
- 1letterunixname 4y agoBritish and Indian pre-partition (1947) coins are unwieldy compared to modern coins both in terms of weight and lack of decimalization. You'd swear they just copied whatever the Romans did (Carolingian monetary system). ;)
- mc32 4y agoBinary wouldn't be half bad: halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths and thirty seconds of a pound.
- devoutsalsa 4y ago“If you drop a coin off a tall building, contrary to popular belief, it won’t actually hurt anyone.” “Well actually…”