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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8078574, member: 115909&quot;]Yeah with hacksilver they tended to go by weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know the Vikings at one point used the “Mark” of 200 grams of fine silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>“In the Laws of Canute an unknown man who was killed and was presumed to be a Dane, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Vill" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Vill" rel="nofollow">vill</a>/tithing was compelled to pay 40 marks for his death.”</p><p><br /></p><p>But it was tough to find coins with a weight divisible by 200 so they could cut coins into pieces when adding another whole coin would’ve made it overweight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not just coins either. They’d chop up religious ornaments made of precious metals too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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