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Posted By: wwh unzain, liard - 09/24/03 06:11 PM
Names of coins for which I could find no definitions.
"what profits it me to know, better than any governor of the mint, or any Jew on the Pont aux Changeurs, that a golden crown stamped with a crown is worth thirty-five unzains of twenty-five sous, and eight deniers parisis apiece, and that a crown stamped with a crescent is worth thirty-six unzains of twenty-six sous, six deniers tournois apiece, if I have not a single wretched black liard to risk on the double-six! "

Posted By: Bingley Re: unzain, liard - 09/25/03 04:55 AM
Couldn't find anything on unzain, but, speculating, could it be eleven of something, like douzain = dozen:

Liard. According to http://colet.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/dico1look.pl?strippedhw=liard, a liard is 3 deniers or 1/4 of a sou.
Also: N'avoir pas un liard, n'avoir pas le liard, Ętre fort pauvre, ou Ętre sans argent pour le moment.



Bingley
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