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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 8363307, member: 102103&quot;]My European history is a bit rusty, but my recollection was that a significant amount of a family&#039;s income would be from household production (spinning, making clothes, raising animals and crops, gathering wood etc.).&nbsp; Some would be used in barter or sold for money, and some would be for personal use.&nbsp; The amount of one&#039;s effective spending power which came from wages would have been a lot smaller than in modern times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins are great for collecting taxes, paying soldiers, and trade, but the rest of the economy was not fully monetized yet.&nbsp; When the Industrial Revolution started and a greater fraction of income had to be paid in cash it caused huge coin shortages (and widespread use of tokens).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1484303[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1484304[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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