If you read that from Tolkien Wiki, then you may have been reading the article about Lord of the Rings Online (an MMORPG). The currency for that game is copper, silver and gold.
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It just seems so unsophisticated to me. It's not like we use gold as our main currency. The coins may be made of gold but it's not like they just use hunks of gold for their currency. We don't call pennies "Coppers".
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Ya but they used to use curency that way I think. And we were not as inteligent back then. Do you exspect the Romans to use words like I fell glum or Declecsia, or A.D.D.?
You are naming various diseases that were not even discovered and named back then. We were no less intelligent back then as we are now, we just didn't know as much. However, if they had discovered those diseases back then, why not name them that? Many of those long complicated names came from Greek Roots. And they did not name their currency gold, silver and copper in the time of Greece. I copied this from the web.
The Athenian monetary system was set up in the following way:
6 obols = 1 drachma
100 drachma = 1 mina
600 minae = 1 talent (or the equivalent of 57 pounds of silver)
The Byzantines, (which is a country that was around the medieval era.) used a coin called a gold nomisma. I copied this from the web as well.
The coins of Western Europe were very diverse, they had many different authorities because of Feudalism so the coins vary in size, shape, and weight. But increased trading led to the standardizing of coins. This allowed for trade from one region the next. The earliest coin was the gold triens, it was derived from an early Roman coin. Charlemagne standardized the coinage system in his empire. The basic coin in his empire was the silver coin called the denarius or penny.
So, yeah. I highly doubt that they used those names.
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