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adammarples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
klyrs
Hah, came to post the same link. Seriously. A 20kg copper plate is not exactly pocket change, but it doesn't hold a candle to 4 metric tons.
rcv
> The ownership of a large stone, which would be too difficult to move, was established by its history as recorded in oral tradition, rather than by its location. Appending a transfer to the oral history of the stone thus effected a change of ownership

So, like an NFT before they were cool?

1letterunixname
British and Indian pre-partition (1947) coins are unwieldy compared to modern coins both in terms of weight and lack of decimalization. You'd swear they just copied whatever the Romans did (Carolingian monetary system). ;)
mc32
Binary wouldn't be half bad: halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths and thirty seconds of a pound.
mikewarot
Binary isn't terrible, but you could use a factor of three or five every once in a while to make it more divisible... like 12 or 60. 8)
mc32
Yah people don’t believe me when I say SAE is superior to metric because they’re based on binary ;)
devoutsalsa
“If you drop a coin off a tall building, contrary to popular belief, it won’t actually hurt anyone.”

“Well actually…”