Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:08:29AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> A pound sterling is so-called because it was originally the value of a
> pound of "sterling" silver. sterling comes from Easterling which is what
> German Hanseatic merchants were called during the middle ages.
I need to read less fiction and more history; to me an easterling is
someone from beyond the Sea of Rhûn :-)
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