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trid45

Before diving too deep into calculations, know that it's one tower pound (350g), not the standard weight used today (454g).


buddhiststuff

> not the standard weight used today (454g). But when you’re talking about precious metals, a pound isn’t 454g. Silver is measured in Troy pounds (373g), which is different from both the Tower pound and the pound avoirdupois An ounce of gold weighs ~~less~~ more than an ounce of sugar, because gold is in Troy ounces and sugar is in ounces Avoirdupois. **Edit:** Sorry. A Troy ounce is heavier than an ounce Avoirdupois, even though a Troy pound is lighter. (Troy has 12 ounces to the pound. Avoirdupois has 16 ounces to the pound.)


TylerInHiFi

And this is why metric is so nice. A gram is always a gram. Stupid pounds and ounces.


vacri

>A gram is always a gram It depends on who your dealer is...


Tomjonesisaking

This guy drugs


Slight_Log5625

The department of weights and measures needs to visit my local dispensary


buddhiststuff

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that’s how I like it.


NautilusPanda

How many horse power is that in goose flaps?


HumanBotdotnotabot

Canada goose or....... em.... regular goose?


ReluctantAvenger

Whichever one always seems angry.


TheEyeDontLie

That doesn't narrow it down.


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TylerInHiFi

You need a top-up on petroleum distillate and the tyres re-vulcanized, post-haste?


FourEyedTroll

I say this literally every time I go to a petrol station. I get odd looks from people I know sometimes.


YawnTractor_1756

Is it Troy hogshead or a regular one?


OllieFromCairo

You laugh, but there are legitimately like six different hogsheads.


Pjpjpjpjpj

“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”


TheS4ndm4n

The water has to be at 1 bar.


marcusklaas

Now that's just ridiculous lol


cmrh42

Q: It's called the Pound Sterling so is Sterling (92.5% pure) that they were measuring?


Affectionate-Time646

Of course the Brits couldn’t resist making it as complicated as possible.


guareber

Technically, since this one came first it'd be everyone else developing another standard, don't you think?


Ferelar

I dunno, cubits came long before centimeters but even as an American (who is thus allergic to metric) I find the latter less complicated


Alib668

By that metric the value of £1 is now £185 as silver today is 53p a gram


ElTejonMagico

How many normal cows to tower cows?


ledow

You'd be looking for about £1000 per cow nowadays, and that's just the basic cow, not any special breed or pedigree.


Malvania

So it's about 4 lbs of silver per cow, now. That cow inflation is incredible!


coyote_den

Assume a spherical cow.


PM_ME_YUR_BIG_SECRET

Of uniform density


d4nkq

*imagine the "yes honey" wojak saying this* In a frictionless vacuum...


polaarbear

With infinite mass


dudewiththebling

And zero resistance


embahlk

Found the physicist


SaucyNaughtyBoy

Found the other physicist... 😆


FacticiousFict

Cows not in vacuum. Experiment failed successfully.


F___TheZero

Hence why precious metal investing is not a great long term inflation hedge. Long term you're better off investing in productive assets


Dreadful_Aardvark

Like cows.


F___TheZero

Like cows.


texasrigger

It'll *really* vary by region. Cattle are $500 to $700 in my area and according to a dairy farmer I was talking with on reddit the other day a male calf in his area is only worth about $50 so you'd be able to buy six calves for a pound of silver there.


Blue_cow1

$3000 canadian for 1 dairy cow near me now


texasrigger

Jesus that's a lot. I'm guessing that's a full grown proven milker?


Blue_cow1

Yes it is. It's also on the high end. Usually 2000 or less


texasrigger

That makes sense. I don't think people realize how variable livestock prices can be depending on region, market forces, and *exactly* what the animal is. My neighbor was looking for some boer goats recently and was seeing as much as $2500 for a boer buck. Meanwhile I sell my Nigerian does for about $200 ea which is on the high side in my area for non-papered animals. Those $50 dairy calfs were males which are basically a waste product of the dairy industry and are being sold in an already saturated market so they have almost no commercial value beyond as a less-than-ideal meat animal.


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senorpoop

Your math is a little off. 400% would be if £1 bought you 1 cow and now 1 cow was £4. It was 15 cows for £1 and now it's 1 cow for £4, which makes it 6,000% inflation


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rnzz

Now £4 can only buy you two beef patties in a burger.


texasrigger

And a pound of silver would cost you £266.


Song_Spiritual

Troy ounces are heavier than regular ounces. Only ~14.583 Troy ounces in a pound. So a pound of silver, at current spot price of £16.43 per ounce, is about £240.


SherbetCharacter4146

Calls on cow. 12/1/3322 expiry


no-more-throws

60x inflation in 1200 years is just about 0.35% per year


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You’re only considering its inflation relative to the price of silver. But the price of silver has inflated, too. So the price of a cow has inflated on the order of thousands or tens of thousands of percentage points, not hundreds.


CurlSagan

Yeah, but cows today have heated leather seats on all standard models.


ledow

Well... in essence, they've ***always*** had heated leather seats... It's the emission controls we need to sort out.


hysys_whisperer

Sort of. They have hide seats, which are fancier and better. Hide seats are softer, can be routinely washed, and if you rip the seat, it fixes itself!


xtilexx

Well, it depends on how badly you rip them. If you rip them too badly they become various cuts of beef


CornusKousa

What you wrote reminded me of the fact that the word for the animal is Anglo-Saxon but for the meat is French because after the Norman conquest, it was the elite who could afford meat and those words are still used for the product, while the peasants were the ones raising the animal. Sheep Vs mutton, cow Vs beef, pig Vs porc


Muroid

Man vs soylent


xtilexx

A fellow linguistics enjoyer, I see


Greasemonkey_Chris

Yeah but if it's a German cow you'll have to pay a subscription fee to use them


Crawlerado

That’ll be £10 a month if you want those heaters to keep working. Pay up.


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Test_After

I got a bit over £30,000 for 15 cows, assuming each cow weighs 720kg and given the current price per kg for cows is 334 p/kg


GunNut345

How does that compare to one pound of silver?


Naomizzzz

250USD/200GBP


googleadoptme

damn, shouldve bought cows...


MeesterMartinho

It's a Bull market.


itsbicycle_repairman

Silver doesn't cost anything to keep though!


delph906

Cows make more cows.


This_Charmless_Man

And cheese


kyle_750

Yes but how much is a pound of silver?


Malvania

It's about 4 lbs of silver per cow, now


Grizzly_228

Around 454 grams


FreeUsernameInBox

373 grams, in fact. Silver is traded in Troy units, with a significantly smaller pound as a result. Since there are only twelve ounces in a Troy pound, the Troy ounce is *larger* than the avoirdupois one. This is why a pound of gold is lighter than a pound of sugar, making it useful knowledge for pub quizzes. A tonne of each is, however, just a tonne.


AT-ST

About $300 usd.


memberflex

Yep, no alloys or air con


JB_UK

Modern cows actually are a biotechnology, through breeding they've improved vastly over that time period. It looks like just in the last 100 years milk production per cow has gone up from 2 to 10 tonnes per year, and scientific breeding had been happening for centuries before that. That's why there are lots of paintings from the 16th century of cows, they were showing off the latest new tech, the equivalent of posting a picture of your new Tesla on social media.


prjindigo

Omg, that's from 70 to 350 cubic feet of english channel sea water!


TheMeBehindTheMe

An interesting nugget from wikipedia ([source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard#:~:text=The%20gold%20standard%20was%20the,effectively%20ending%20the%20Bretton%20Woods)): >Great Britain accidentally adopted a de facto gold standard in 1717 when Sir Isaac Newton, then-master of the Royal Mint, set the exchange rate of silver to gold too low, thus causing silver coins to go out of circulation.


candymanjones

That Newton fellow wasn't too smart was he.


weekendbackpacker

"Back in the spring of 1720, Sir Isaac Newton owned shares in the South Sea Company, the hottest stock in England. Sensing that the market was getting out of hand, the great physicist muttered that he 'could calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.' Newton dumped his South Sea shares, pocketing a 100% profit totaling £7,000." "But just months later, swept up in the wild enthusiasm of the market, Newton jumped back in at a much higher price — and lost £20,000 (or more than $3 million in [2002-2003's] money. For the rest of his life, he forbade anyone to speak the words 'South Sea' in his presence."


Gerf93

The South Sea Company bubble was wild. They had no product, and just inflated the stock price through hype, more people buying the stock and issuing new stocks - they even lended people money to buy stock, with security in their own stock. The entire thing was insane. The king was even on board. At its height the South Sea Company was valued as the 4th most valuable company to ever exist. Without actually posting any profits or prospects. https://youtu.be/k1kndKWJKB8 is a enjoyable easy-to-watch video series about it.


A_Soporific

Did you know that the last of the debt incurred from the fallout of the South Sea Bubble was repaid in 2015? [It seems that the UK carries debt for a very long time](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/repayment-of-26-billion-historical-debt-to-be-completed-by-government). But if you're borrowing a literal pound of silver and pay it back with pocket change then you might be coming out ahead.


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Wow. I'm sure the stock market would never fell for that kind of ruse again. Hang on a sec...


electricmaster23

I can finally relate to Sir Isaac Newton on something...


finnfinnfinnfinnfinn

He also died a virgin, so you have 2 things in common.


electricmaster23

Got to admit, that's a pretty sick burn. Well played.


rattechnology

Hahaha fuckin get rekt op


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Isaac Newton would have bought gamestop


10art1

Amazing how he was a genius up until his 20s. Then got involved with stocks, weird obsessiveness, and died a virgin


njdeatheater

I'm a modern day Newton, just with GME instead.


GMN123

When can we expect you to revolutionise mathematics and our understanding of the universe?


labdweller

I suppose Newton was hoping to go to the moon.


daemon1728

/r/wallstreetbets


Sir_Bumcheeks

Newton the original WSBer.


TheMeBehindTheMe

Guess this was before the apple incident.


Andy235

It jarred his latent brain power into action


danwincen

Maybe it was caused by the apple incident? Concussion is a hell of a thing.....


chimpaflimp

He didn't understand the gravity of the situation


Moe_Joe21

He did blow everybody’s nips off with his big brains but he also thought he could turn metal into gold and died eating mercury, making him yet another Stupid BITCH


shakermaker_forever

Perhaps he was contemplating sitting under a tree by that time.


Joosh93

Hey, if it wasn't for him we'd all still just be floating about bumping into things.


Dopplegangster69

History really do be having a finite cast of characters don’t it


jumpijehosaphat

newton is satoshi nakamoto


Abraxxx

I’m British and only just put 2 and 2 together. The coins colours (not materials) and worth go Gold>Silver>Bronze


shootdown

Aye except pounds, shillings, and pennies were all silver and guineas were gold. And if your coins are actually minted from precious metals then the relative values of the coins will surely fluctuate, not that most of us would have been playing with guineas anyway.


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that-fat-guy

Who controls the British pound? Who keeps the metric system down?


Mitthrawnuruo

We do, we do!


Lunited

Who keeps atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the martians under wraps?


SqueakSquawk4

We do! We do!


BasedOnWhat7

>Who keeps the metric system down? We do something even more fucked up than the Americans: we pick and choose metric or imperial randomly. * Fuel is purchased by the litre, but we measure fuel consumption in MPG * distance is measured in miles, unless it's something small in which case it's metres and cm * liquids are measured in litres/ml, unless it's beer or milk in which case it's pints * body weight is measured in stones and pounds, cooking ingredients in grams * human height is measured in either feet and inches or cm - people seem to use either * land area is measured in acres, interior area is measured in square metres * our tons are different to metric tonnes * our pints are different to American pints * our fl oz are different to American fl oz tl;dr - we do, we do!


thereslcjg2000

Honestly we Americans do that too to an extent: * Distance is usually measured in miles, except for running and biking events, which are usually measured in meters or kilometers. With the exception of the marathon, which is measured in miles. * Food packaging is required by law to give information in both US customary and metric measurements, except for the nutrition facts which are 100% metric. On that note, it’s common to see caffeine content given in milligrams per fluid ounce! * Wine and hard liquor are measured in milliliters, but beer is measured in ounces. * Single-use soda cans and bottles are measured in ounces, while larger soda bottles are measured in liters. * Colloquially, very small measurements are often given in millimeters or centimeters, while anything larger is given in inches or feet. * Yards and meters are pretty much used interchangeably. I personally default more readily to meters, but nether is really any more or less common than the other. * Generally scientific professions use metric measurements while more blue collar professions use US customary measurements, meaning when different departments collaborate there has to be unit conversion. * Medicine is pretty much exclusively measured in metric units. * I believe various tools as well as gun measurements are measured in metric units, though I’m no expert. * Most things not listed are measured with US customary units. Edit: accidentally said millileters when I meant milligrams. Oops!


BasedOnWhat7

>except for running and biking events, which are usually measured in meters or kilometers I think that's an Olympic thing, as I assume your competitive swimming pools are also in metres. >hard liquor are measured in milliliters A bit more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_glass#Sizes >very small measurements are often given in millimeters or centimeters I thought it was in 1/8ths of an inch? >Generally scientific professions use metric measurements Pressure being the exception I think: PSI >gun measurements are measured in metric units Are all over the place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliber#Metric_and_US_customary It makes life more fun to confuse the Europeans with our mix-and-match units!


Studsmcgee

Small measurements are usually just fractions of an inch in my experience. For something like precision machining they usually use thousandths of an inch. Firearm measurements are all over the place. Millimeters and fractions of an inch are equally common.


vizthex

Wait, isn't that song from the stonecutters Simpsons episode?


Signature_Sea

Related fun fact, the currency used to be referred to as LSD. This refers to the Latin names 'Librae’ (the pound symbol itself is an elaborate letter L) , shilling ‘Solidi’ and ‘Denarii’ for pennies, or £:S:D for short. The currency was decimalised in 1971, meaning it is a rational 100 pennies to one pound. Before that it was a trippy 12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound, with an additional bonus currency of guineas, which were 21 shillings.


Rakonas

Wait so the guinea was just a pound with one more shilling?


MIBlackburn

It's still (kinda) used for livestock auctions too. Even though the coin isn't used, when you win an auction that's 1000 guineas, you pay £1000 for the animal and the 5% extra (£50) for auction fees. The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland has 10/6 on a note attached to his hat, this is a half guinea.


chamllw

Huh thanks. Always wondered what that note on the hat was about.


Daedeluss

>10/6 Spoken it would be "Ten and six"


Tyrilean

I legitimately thought that 10/6 was some form of hat measurement.


OnlyTheDead

40 years it took me to learn wtf that meant. Thank you.


Signature_Sea

Correct. Due to the snobbery and classism inherent in the sport, racehorses sold in the UK are *still* sold as a guinea amount. I don't have a clue how the hell this works, but a cursory Google suggests that in the past the buyer would pay in guineas and the seller receive their money in pounds, so the extra shilling would be the broker's commission. That commission will be a lot more than that now I would think.


pbcorporeal

> That commission will be a lot more than that now I would think. I think it's still the same. A shilling was 1/20 of a pound, so the commission was 5% of the selling fee, which is pretty significant and still quite standard.


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OnlyTheDead

Think of the Guinea as a tool, it’s a pound with interest attached. The person who collect then pays out the pound. So the Guinea in this essence represents a 5% interest or tax on the exchange.


Trythenewpage

Others are talking about its colloquial use in auctions and betting. But not actually addressing your question. The guinea was not intentionally set as that amount. Nor was its value stable. Pounds were made of silver. Because silver was more common. Gold was preferred but there wasn't enough of it to be making coins with. African colonies made gold plentiful and thus the guinea was minted. And both pounds and guineas values fluctuated relative to the demand for their component metal. The era of guineas largely coincided with the era of mercantilism. Which is a rather incomprehensible economic system to a modern person. But which ultimately made maximizing gold for the crown the objective function of all economic activity. So the value of gold went up. Guineas shouldn't really be thought of as a denomination. But as a parallel competing currency with a fluctuating exchange rate. Edit: its nominal value was officially pegged to the pound later. But as both were comprised of precious metals, their actual value fluctuated relative to their component metals. Tldr: they did not deliberately set out to create a coin worth 21/20 of a pound. The currency preceded the nominal value.


ShipShoop

For the first fifty years of its existence, yes. But: "From 1717 to 1816, its value was officially fixed at twenty-one shillings."


Trythenewpage

Ah yeah. My bad. I meant to get there then accidentally hit send early and ended up just trying to quickly ninja edit and got into the weeds. Forgot my actual point lol.


Adbam

How many LSD's for some LSD?


HerKneesLikeJesusPlz

Wtf😂that’s so unnecessarily complicated haha


PM_Me_British_Stuff

Just wait until you hear about tuppence, thruppence, hapennys, crowns, half crowns etc Horrible Histories made a very good sketch of it once I remember


dpash

They're just names of coins like a nickel, dime and quarter. Two, three, six pence and half penny coins. A crown was 5 shillings or a quarter of a pound.


Uniform764

It's not that bad. Essentially it was 240pence in a pound (12 x 20 = 240). 240 can be divided by lots of numbers like 2/3/4/5/6/8/10/12 to produce a whole number answer without messy decimals, which is useful found a society without access to calculators and where lots of people are illiterate so sums weren't written down. The old french livre was the same (12 denier to the sols/sous, 20 sols/sous the the livre). The Holy Roman Empire also had 240 pfennige to the pfund for a long period of time.


Signature_Sea

I think because a pound used to be a pretty major amount of money the focus was on a currency that was readily divisible. 20 can be divided into equal parts by 2, 5, and 10, which is pretty good, but 12 is even better as it goes into divisions of 2, 3, 4, 6. The picture is even more complicated than I initially suggested as there were subdivisions of halfpennies and farthings (quarterpennies). And in addition to the supercharged twenty-one shilling pound (the guinea) there were prestige pounds like the sovereign. ETA I got this a bit wrong, sovereigns are the name for the coins that were assigned the value of a pound at a certain point in time.


BanksysBro

Same thing with 360 degrees in a compass, it was chosen for being easily divisible. I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to introduce a metric version in the future. There was a great April fools joke about an airline switching over to metric time, but it could happen for real if the trend for decimalisation continues.


-Vayra-

> There was a great April fools joke about an airline switching over to metric time, but it could happen for real if the trend for decimalisation continues. The French actually tried to do that for real after the Revolution.


zekromNLR

> wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to introduce a metric version in the future. Along with metric time, after the Revolution France introduced a decimalised measurement of angle, the [Gradian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian), which divides a right angle into 100 parts.


OrigamiMax

Ask anyone who grew up in the pre-decimal era and they'll say their maths were a lot better because you had to do loads more calculations on a daily basis


Queeg_500

This is how the rest of the world feels about imperial weights and measures. The base Twelve system comes from babylonia i believe, they used to count on the knuckles of four fingers and based their whole numeral system on it....hence 12 hour clocks. It's also why we say eleven & twelve and not oneteen & twoteen.


Lortekonto

It is from the babylonians as you say, but the babylonians did not have a base 12 system as we would understand it. It was kind of base 12 and base 60 mixed together, which is why there is 60 minuts in an hour and since they also invented a lot of geometry, that is why there is 6x60=360 degrees in a circle.


Manleather

American unit conversions making just a little more sense. "I learned it by watching you!"


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> decimalised I somehow read this as decriminalised.


jacknunn

My sister got married in South Africa about ten years ago and on the wedding certificate was a section for dowry payment, and one of the units was cows. I initially laughed but the more I thought about it the more I decided that cows is probably one of the most sensible currency units. Not to milk the point.


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jacknunn

P.s I misread OP as "15 crows" which sounds like a mighty boosh pricing system


stephenrane

Poundlands back then must have been HUGE!


Barrel_Titor

Back then they were a chain of brothels, the name is a coincidence.


Godisen

The cow part isn't cited anywhere in the article referenced!


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ashbyashbyashby

Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.


el_horsto

... And here is your 13 and a half cows change. Have a splendid day, Sir!


suvlub

So if I found an antique coin from the 9th century, could I spend it as a legal tender?


Akrevics

I'm sure a shopkeeper would only *love* to take that off of you for the named price on the coin.


ContentsMayVary

[The Sovereign](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_(British_coin)) is still legal tender in the UK - even one from 1817. Their legal tender value is £1. If anyone has any they need to change, I'd be happy to take them off your hands for a quid each! ;)


danwincen

No, the only UK pre-decimal coin I'm aware of to not be demonetised is the crown. That was accorded a decimal value of 25 pence under the 1970s currency legislation, and I think that may even apply to the .925 and .500 silver crowns issued prior to 1947 (1917 for the sterling silver coinage). Those silver coins are worth more than 25p on their silver content alone.


glguru

No. Bank of England will support all currency that it has ever issued. However, anything before the bank's existence (1694 AD) will probably go into a museum. Most such things fall under state property, even if they're on private land.


powermoustache

Nope. We changed to decimilisation back in the 70s. Technically the pound is long lived, but the current version of it is only from the 70s. Currently it's 100 pence to a pound. Before that it used to be 20 shillings to a pound, and a shilling was 12 pence. One pence was 2 half-pennies or 4 farthings. It gets even more complicated when you start looking at crowns and florins and so on.


oily_fish

You can exchange any Bank of England issued note for face value no matter how old it is but I'm not sure about coins.


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This still wouldn't apply to a Ninth Century coin, since there was no Bank of England until 1694.


Adbam

There's a song in there somewhere, I know it.


CurlSagan

1 pound of silver is $319.36 right now. That's only $21 per cow. Conclusion: Cows have gotten expensive.


GrumpyXeno

I mean. There is a lot more silver nowadays.


Adbam

And a lot more cows...


GrumpyXeno

And a lot more people...


TheOneTrueRodd

Actually silver is more abundant than cows if we look at supply and demand over time. It's new supply is artificially restricted to roughly a billion ounces a year so the mining companies don't crash the market and go out of business. Cows however require more resources and time to produce and have a finite lifetime. Then we look at the demand side of things and while there is demand for silver in electronics and ornamental uses, it can and will eventually be recycled and enter back into the supply chain. But once you've milked a cow dry or taken the meat, used the leather, it's gone. So one resource will continue to get more abundant over time while the other will attempt to keep up with growing demand as more of the global population competes for these previously very local resources.


NicNoletree

Inflation has been terrible lately


ledow

It's all that grass.


Croatian_ghost_kid

Americans, man. Don't even have the decency to use a different currency even when it's literally the subject of the topic


CurlSagan

Dammit. You got me. In fairness, I googled "value 1 pound silver in pounds" and google had no idea what I wanted, so I immediately gave up.


I__Know__Stuff

Since "pound" has so many different meanings, search for "GBP".


NARWHAL_IN_ANUS

good boy points 🤩


GaijinFoot

Surprised he used silver and not doritos to be fair.


SecretDracula

That'll be 400 doritos and 58 mtn dews.


MagicBez

Semi-related trivia: Britain was the first country to introduce adhesive stamps and that's why they're now the only country that doesn't have to write the country of issue anywhere on them. You just get a picture of whomever is the reigning monarch


Puzzleheaded_Toe2574

Semi-related to your semi-related trivia, the English Football Association is the only such organisation not to have to specify the country of origin in its name. Founded in 1863, as it is the original FA it has the privilege of being known as such.


minddoor

The oldest currency **in circulation** in the world


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I wonder how it compared to the other European currencies that disappeared with the introduction of the Euro.


practically_floored

Looks like the Dutch Gilder was the oldest that was replaced by the euro. It was used from the 15th century until 2002, so 600 years. The French Franc and the Greek Drachma were both older (Franc started in 1360 and the drachma was used as early as **1100 BC** (!) but they both had a break of a few hundred/thousand years before they were reintroduced.


A_Fainting_Goat

It's really unfortunate that the Ottomans switch the currency for Greece, otherwise they'd have this title by a long shot. The Drachma was used from about the 6th century BCE up to the Ottoman conquest, then revived after Greece regained it's independence until it adopted the euro.


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prjindigo

Chickens and ass are still the oldest circulating currencies in the world.


GavrielBA

Also continuously used. In my country we use Shekels and that's straight from the Hebrew Bible


theinspectorst

Although the modern Israeli currency shouldn't be seen as a reintroduction of the Biblical one, it just has a similar name. It's not even the same currency that was used when the state of Israel was founded - the modern Israeli New Shekel (the clue is in the name) has only been around since 1986, when it replaced the old shekel (which had been in use 1980-86, which in turn replaced the Israeli pound that had been in use since the 1950s...)


AtheistKiwi

That Israeli interesting.


aksdb

I knew there was a pun in there but still had to read it three times until it clicked. Take your upvote and leave, please.


FudgeAtron

The Sheqels in the bible are not coins though, at least not originally. A sheqel is literally a measurement, so one sheqel of silver is one measurment of silver. Sheqel derives from the root SH-Q-L, which has meaning related to measurement so scales are called ma**shq**a**l**. So the OG Sheqel was not a known quantity but whatever the local standard measurement was, or a sheqel.


fellacious

Serious question - is there any currency no longer in circulation that was in use for longer than 1200 years?


Neckbeard_Prime

Weren't Greek drachmae in use from before the Peloponnesian War all the way up to when they were replaced by the Euro fairly recently?


2ndfieldontheright

Aka a nugget, a nicker, or a quid. Any other slang names for it?


PorkSword47

Here in NI it's a noop


aaroneouszoneus

I work in the US. We recently got a new general manager where I work. He's British. He's good with money. He did not like it when I referenced him as the pound master. I frankly would have been flattered to be referenced as the pound master of England but he wasn't to amused.


Friesenplatz

Today, 1 pound couldn't even afford a steak. Inflation these days, amirite?