Cards as Currency

Brownes3 · 12 Jul 1998, 14:48 · from whorl-v0008.mbox · original

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From: Brownes3 at aol.com
Subject: (whorl) Cards as Currency
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:48:14 EDT
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>>However, I don't think that's what is going on. I suspect the Cards became
>>a unit of currency for the reason that gold did on Earth: they're scarce,
>>measurable, almost indestructable, pretty, and portable.=20

Sensible, but not likely because of what it doesn't explain:  what happened=
 to
the original currency, then? There's no mention of other currency, even by
"good ole days" types of characters. Cards had to have been the only curren=
cy
know in the Whorl.=20

Rich Browne

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