In message <33d89280606172111m5da21342l860ba9b29e5f6bd1@mail.gmail.com> Fred writes:
>You get my point, though... if you have a windfall, and you have some
>cash left over after the annual harvest festival, there isn't much you
>can do to keep it against the re-minting.
True, but that isn't a reality for a medieval peasant. They're more likely to end up owing rent. It's like someone today earning the minimum wage getting most of their year's income in a single week. So you pay your debts and taxes, buy essential tools for the next year and maybe the odd minor luxury. There just isn't going to be hundreds of pounds (in modern equivelent) left over.
Then say you have an odd penny. You're going to be charged at least a quarter of that to change it so why bother? Keep it until you need to spend it when you might have another. At worst someone will ask why you didn't change it at the time and you have to play ignorant/stupid.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/Received on Sun 18 Jun 2006 - 13:47:34 EEST
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