Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
Money an ancient medium of exchange in the form of barter, weights, measurements. As in Gerah, Bekah, Pim (2/3 shekel) 1/3 ounce, 9.45 grams shekel (2 bekahs), 2/5 ounce, 11.34 grams, Mina (50 shekels), 1.25 pounds 0.567 kg., Talent (60 minas) 75 pounds 34.02 kg.
money (n.)
mid-13c., "coinage, metal currency," from Old French monoie "money, coin, currency; change" (Modern French monnaie), from Latin moneta "place for coining money, MINT; coined money, money, coinage," from Moneta, a title or surname of the Roman goddess Juno, in or near whose temple money was coined; perhaps from monere "advise, warn" (see monitor (n.)), with the sense of "admonishing goddess," which is sensible, but the etymology is difficult.mint (n.2)
place where money is coined, early 15c., from Old English mynet "coin, coinage, money" (8c.), from West Germanic *munita (source also of Old Saxon munita, Old Frisian menote, Middle Dutch munte, Old High German munizza, German münze), from Latin moneta "mint" (see money). Earlier word for "place where money is coined" was minter (early 12c.). General sense of "a vast sum of money" is from 1650s.
mint (v.)
"to stamp metal to make coins," 1540s, from mint (n.2). Related: Minted; minting. Minter "one who stamps coins to create money" is from early 12c.
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