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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 28719, member: 57463&quot;]That is not exactly right.&nbsp; You have put the cart before the horse.&nbsp; The pound was a pound was a pound.&nbsp; From a pound of silver they could get so-many coins of such a certain size. You could get 20 shillings -- big coins, perhaps 1/2 to 2/3 ounce each, depending on whose &quot;pound&quot; your scales were set to.&nbsp; You could get a lot more little coins.&nbsp; The Roman denarius (d for &quot;penny&quot;) weighed 3 grams plus, but in the Dark Ages, coins one-third the size were more useful.&nbsp; They took the number 240 as being better than 200 or 300 or 257 because 240 is conveniently a score of dozens.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;pound sterling&quot; really was a pound of silver at one time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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