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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1096519, member: 57463&quot;]Pardon me for interrupting the group hug.&nbsp; I appreciate Clinker&#039;s passion for research; and I wish that more people would post the way he does.&nbsp; The problem is that he never cites his sources and when we hit a glitch, we don&#039;t know where it comes from.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]109578.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]109579.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Generally speaking, the system in western and central Europe derived from <b>the Roman pound both against and including the German mark </b>and we knew it last from the UK: pence-shillings-pounds.&nbsp; It was not a decimal system. When Jefferson and Hamilton proposed decimal coinage many people had no idea what they were talking about. </p><p><br /></p><p>The thaler was divided into 12ths.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What we call &quot;inflation&quot; was easily perceived as <b>debasement.</b>&nbsp; Thus, over time and place, the number of pfennig in the groschen and those in the thaler changed by time and place.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you really want to care, some of the problems derived from the change of grains in the pennyweight, when the standard grain changed from wheat to barley.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry to rain on the parade here.&nbsp; I should offer an umbrella to Clinker: he did the hard work first and it is easier to criticize than to create.&nbsp; What got my goat was all the swooning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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