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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kimotej, post: 3020495, member: 83864&quot;]Thank You! Just glad to be able to help.</p><p><br /></p><p>I forgot to mention the great coin reform of the Frankians and Charles the Great in circa 794. To create more trust for the (coming) emperor´s coins, Charles raised the weight of the Denar with 1.7 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 <i>pound </i>of silver (Latin <i>libra, </i>this is were the short form <i>lb</i> comes from) was based on 20 <i>sous </i>(Latin <i>solidus</i>) that again was based on 240 <i>deniers</i> (Latin <i>denarius</i>).</p><p><i>Pound</i> and <i>Sous </i>were during this time accounting units, and only <i>Denier</i> were used as coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This teases us to perhaps guess that 1 Öre could have represented 1/8 pound of silver that time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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