| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Historic accuracy? | | Date: | Monday, April 2, 2007 12:30:49 (-0700) | | From: | william_b_ryan <william_b_ryan @.....com>
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| In reply to: | Message 4638 (written by Martin Hattersley) |
Martin, if Abraham "weighed out" the silver, he
clearly wasn't using silver coinage. He would have
"weighed out" 400 shekels worth of silver, with the
shekel being the monetary unit, or standard of value.
If Abraham had been using silver coinage, he would
have counted out the amount, not weighed it. This
rather makes Innes' point, I should think. A coin
containing silver denominated in so many shekels would
have been merely a token for so many shekels, not a
specific amount of silver. The monetary value of the
coin would have differed from the value of its
specific metallic content.
--- Martin Hattersley <hattersleyjm@interbaun.com>
wrote:
I'm thinking of that account in the Book of Genesis
(23.16), where there is a clear record that Abraham
"weighed out 400 shekels of silver" in order to
purchase a cave as a burial place for his deceased
wife Sarah. It seems to me that that shows that at
that time and place, specific weights of silver were
used as a measure of value in exchange.
David Astle wrote a book, "The Babylonian Woe", which
mentioned that in ancient times, the equivalent of our
modern paper money was clay tiles made in the moulds
used for casting coins - e.g. when the Athenians
exhausted their silver mines during the Peloponnesian
War. Easier than running up the National Debt!
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