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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Abbreviations"</span><br>
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Beste Pat,<br>
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You wrote:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I have been
asked by a friend for help with translating a medieval document (for her family
history, which involves Scots people in </span>Rotterdam<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">).
One point that I don't understand (perhaps because they h is the currency
- a typical entry is "117 symbol like a U with a line through it = fl =
guilders) 16s18d. GR" What does the 'GR' mean? And I thought
there were only 8 duits to the stuiver .... This could be a really odd way of
writing 117 pounds, 16 shillings, 18 pence - but again there are 12 pence to
the shilling, so that doesn't make sense, eitherĀ¬</span></span></p>
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My first thought was that it could be a Latinized abbreviation of Rijnsgulden
(= a famous coin), but that proved wrong. "GR" stands for
"groot", which was a Flemish coin (to be distinguished from money
Parisis). More here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58996660" target="_blank">http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58996660</a><br>
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John H. Munro is a Canadian professor emeritus who studied medieval exchange
rates (among other things). You can find some results of his research here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/MoneyCoinage.htm" target="_blank">http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/MoneyCoinage.htm</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/" target="_blank">http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/</a><br>
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Kind greetings,<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Luc Hellinckx<br>
</span><br>
PS: Sorry for the late response, but am just back from an 18 500 km long
motorbike trip...took me a while to catch up on Lowlands post *s*.</span></p>
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