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From: thorinn@diku.UUCP (Lars Henrik Mathiesen)
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Subject: Currency symbols, meaning of oere (belongs in net.nlang)
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 19:54:29 EST
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In article <831@inset.UUCP> mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan) writes:
>I thought that ore translated as ``ear''

Actually, that's `only' a homonym; oere as a currency unit is from Latin:
		(uncia) aurea, meaning `ounce of gold'.
(That was about 900 AD; gold value would be about 5000 kr. = 500000 oere now.)
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Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U. of Copenhagen		..mcvax!diku!thorinn