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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 797348, member: 9204&quot;]The coin-groats are not related to the grain. &quot;Groat&quot; is a corruption of gros, grosso, and groschen, all meaning &quot;fat.&quot; Groats were fat silver coins. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groat_%28coin%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groat_%28coin%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groat_(coin)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Another avenue you may want to look into is the use of grain on ancient coins, particularly Roman ones depicting Annona, the goddess of grain distribution. </p><p><br /></p><p>(I wrote this one up...) <a href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=146281" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=146281" rel="nofollow">http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=146281</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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