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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Most people didn't see any gold coin in their entire life. Gold was something for nobility and royalty. Silver and copper were used. And many places worked keeping tabs, usually just chalk marks on a slate, and do a regular reckoning or settlement and "clean the slate".

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

that's true,

wonder if that tavernkeeper can go to the nearest Lord and ask to change the gold coins for equal value silver/copper coins.

Also. no banks, so travelling with 9000$ in cash would be extremely dangerous....

would 9000$ in silver coins something that's easy to hide?

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Very roughly 1 gold is 10 silver in history. So that would just be a small bag of 30 something coins. It's not that big in size, but it's still about a kilogram (2 pound) so a bit heavy to keep in your pocket.

Too much to make it easy to hide.