Reflections On the Formation And the Distribution of Riches
Reflections On the Formation And the Distribution of Riches
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron De L'aulne, 1727-1781
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\ AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF RICHES 37 §. XLI. Different articles have been able to serve 6r* have served as ordinary money. Many Nations have adopted as a common measure of value in their language and in their Commerce different substances more or less precious; there are even to-day certain Barbarous Peoples who employ a kind of little shell called Caurits. I remember to have seen at College apricot stones exchanged and passed as a kind of money among the Scholars, who made use of them to play a...t differ- ent games. I have already spoken of the reckoning by head of cattle. One finds traces of it in the Laws of the ancient German Nations who destroyed the Roman Em- pire. The early Romans, or at least the Latins their ancestors, also made use of it. It is said that the first coin struck in copper represented the value of a sheep, and bore the imprint of that animal, and that it is from this that the word pecunia has come, from pecus. This conjecture has a good deal of probability. §. XLII.
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