>Circa 1610, supporting the Lunar army of occupation in Dragon Pass
>cost about 20,000 lunars (or 1 daran) a year in hard currency (which
>is a lot of cows). ... There probably are hundreds of pounds of
>silver - not tons - going back and forth through Dragon Pass.
A Roman denarius weighed about 4 grammes (of silver, fluctuating over the history of the Empire). If a Lunar is comparable, that's only 80 kg of coinage. I imagine many of the readers of this list weigh more.
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