From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 12:48:14 CDT
On 06/05/2004 19:21, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> Playing hide and seek on the graveyards wrote:
>
>> Are those mere Italian pounds or Israeli pounds of 100 agora?
>>
>> For the value of the agora see 1 Sam. 2:36
>>
> Israel stopped using Israeli pounds in 1980. (well, they started
> using Sheqels then; pounds (lira) were still legal tender until 1984.)
>
> ~mark
>
And Italy stopped using pounds or lira more than two years ago. But they
are still used in Turkey. So let's say the bet is in Turkish lira. I'll
accept a 20 Turkish lira bet on almost anything, because there are well
over a million of them to the US dollar.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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