1644 – The Largest Coin

https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/about-the-riksbank/history/historical-timeline/1600-1699/the-worlds-largest-coin/

by erehweb • 4 years ago

19 10 4 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

klyrs• 4 years ago

Hah, came to post the same link. Seriously. A 20kg copper plate is not exactly pocket change, but it doesn't hold a candle to 4 metric tons.

1letterunixname2• 4 years ago

Same. Got change for a 2 x 1m alabaster?

rcv• 4 years ago

The ownership of a large stone, which would be too difficult to move, was established by its history as recorded in oral tradition, rather than by its location. Appending a transfer to the oral history of the stone thus effected a change of ownership

So, like an NFT before they were cool?

thisarticle• 4 years ago

NFTs are cool now?

1letterunixname2• 4 years ago

British and Indian pre-partition (1947) coins are unwieldy compared to modern coins both in terms of weight and lack of decimalization. You'd swear they just copied whatever the Romans did (Carolingian monetary system). ;)

mc322• 4 years ago

Binary wouldn't be half bad: halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths and thirty seconds of a pound.

mikewarot• 4 years ago

Binary isn't terrible, but you could use a factor of three or five every once in a while to make it more divisible... like 12 or 60. 8)

devoutsalsa• 4 years ago

“If you drop a coin off a tall building, contrary to popular belief, it won’t actually hurt anyone.”

“Well actually…”

1644 – The Largest Coin

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