Does anyone know, or care, or have an opinion on what would be a useful
conversion between English pounds stirling (IE a pound of stirling silver
(95% pure) and Seagate silver pennies?

Or between French livres/sous?

cheers, Ian

 - Of course I could just assume that the missing 5% of the stirling can be
found in the seagate pennies.


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> Keisha is already using the (second-to-)latest version of the re-write
> proposed by Jon, Ross & Mandos. It has a few flaws but is being tidied up.
> There are a few new rune mages working off these versions too. Can we just
> tidy what is in play, put it in the rule book, and close the issue, rather
> than getting philosophical about what might be "better"?

I too am using this version for my Rune Mage.

Currently the only versions I am aware of are My version which is Generals
only at the moment and needs more work, and the Ross/John version currently
unofficial but being played by most of the Rune Mages.

I have no problems with the Ross/John version going into the rules and while
there are things I think need to be fixed with it, I would prefer to see
something officially in the rules ASAP. Meanwhile I will be talking to a few
other people and working on my own version to put forward once it is a
little more polished.


Also could all those who havce done any work on any version of Rune send me
a copy so I can shamelessly steal their work and incorporate it into my own
work :-)

Mandos
/s


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A pound of "pure" silver is supposed to be 320 pennyweight. Given that a
guinea is 252sp, and thus a pound is 240sp, one assumes that Seagate silver
pennies are nominally held to be 75% as pure as sterling silver. 320sp = 240
british pence = 1 pound sterling.


Adam Smith says : "The gold coin of France, making an allowance for the
remedy of the mint, contains twenty one carats and three-fourths of fine
gold, and two carats one fourth of alloy. The mark of standard gold (eight
Paris ounces) is coined into thirty Louis d'ors of twenty-four livres each,
or into seven hundred and twenty livres."
Assuming the Seagate & Paris ounces are identical, a pound of gold = 1440
livres, thus 3 livres = 8 sp; 90 livres = 1 pound sterling.

This is all from a bullion perspective. The other approach would be to price
some items in pounds & sp, and find a rough conversion rate.


Andrew
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From: dawnhaven@xtra.co.nz [mailto:dawnhaven@xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2002 8:22 a.m.
To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz
Subject: [dq] currency conversion


Does anyone know, or care, or have an opinion on what would be a useful
conversion between English pounds stirling (IE a pound of stirling silver
(95% pure) and Seagate silver pennies?

Or between French livres/sous?

cheers, Ian

 - Of course I could just assume that the missing 5% of the stirling can be
found in the seagate pennies.


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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I've always used the price of a pint of beer as a conversion method between random currencies.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This takes into account ecomonic factors as well as metal content &nbsp;: - )</font>
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Or between French livres/sous?<br>
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 - Of course I could just assume that the missing 5% of the stirling can be<br>
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<DIV><SPAN class=401334021-28102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The 
universal-time equivalent of the Big Mac Index[FN1], except that the subject is 
somewhat less standardised than the Big Mac - a loaf of bread (or a given 
weight) is possibly better.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=401334021-28102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2>Cheers</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=401334021-28102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2>Errol</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=401334021-28102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>[FN1] 
The Economist annually issues the 'Big Mac Index', which compares the price of 
the popular consumable in different countries with the notional exchange rate, 
and gives the under- or over-pricing of each currency.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Rosemary</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=401334021-28102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT 
color=#000000>&gt; I've always used the price of a pint of beer as a conversion 
method between random currencies.</FONT><FONT color=#000000><FONT 
face="Times New Roman" size=3> <BR></FONT><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>&gt; This 
takes into account ecomonic factors as well as metal content &nbsp;: - 
)</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" 
size=3>&nbsp;</FONT></FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=401334021-28102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I read 
'metal' as 'mental' at first :-)</DIV></FONT></SPAN>
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