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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 18433947, member: 72790"]Speaking of money which was a unit of account but never actually coined is the US Mill, 1/10 of a cent, a unit used in calculating real estate values and taxes. When I started elementary school in the late 1940's we had a black and white marbled copybook which had all kinds of measurements (including the mill) imaginable, including the gold US $10 gold Eagle, along with rods and furlongs ang gills (liquid measurement). About the only unit of measurement not on that back of that book was the "the cubit and the ell" but I guess there was no longer any call for ark construction after the war. I should not have thrown it away as we now do have gold eagles and their fractions as bullion coins and with shrinkflation now common maybe I'll be able to buy a gill or two of hard cider again (for instructional purposes only).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 18433947, member: 72790"]Speaking of money which was a unit of account but never actually coined is the US Mill, 1/10 of a cent, a unit used in calculating real estate values and taxes. When I started elementary school in the late 1940's we had a black and white marbled copybook which had all kinds of measurements (including the mill) imaginable, including the gold US $10 gold Eagle, along with rods and furlongs ang gills (liquid measurement). About the only unit of measurement not on that back of that book was the "the cubit and the ell" but I guess there was no longer any call for ark construction after the war. I should not have thrown it away as we now do have gold eagles and their fractions as bullion coins and with shrinkflation now common maybe I'll be able to buy a gill or two of hard cider again (for instructional purposes only).[/QUOTE]
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