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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 24597019, member: 27832&quot;]I actually had to go and look up &quot;candareen&quot; a long time ago -- I saw it in a story, and my curiosity got the better of me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since a mace is 10 candareens, the real coin represented 72 candareens -- a weird number if you&#039;re accustomed to decimal, but a natural one if you&#039;re using a duodecimal (12-based) system, similar to &quot;50 cents&quot;. What I can&#039;t figure out is why they used decimal <i>denominations</i> (one mace = 10 candareens, one candareen = 10 cash) if they wanted to account by twelves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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