SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #460

[Decker, Terry D.]

>>Bear writes:
>>
>>
>>> P.S.  The pound as a measure of currency is a measure of weight with
>>> variable value...
>>
>>...and is primarily dependent on where you're located.  For example, a
>>pound, in London, is currently worth about $1.68; but a pound in Beirut is
>>only worth about six-hundredths of a penny...
>>
>>	- kat (who wishes she didn't have to know all this stuff, really...)
>
>The pound started out meaning a pound of silver pennies (the Carolingian
>monetary reform). It's been downhill from there.
>
>David/Cariadoc
>http://www.best.com/~ddfr/

I think that a pound of Carolingian silver pennies would have
appreciated by now.  Of course, the value is no longer in the silver,
but in the scarcity of the artifact.

Bear
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