stackyFACTSBefore beautiful circular presses existed, Eastern European transactions involved a significant amount of terrifying metalwork. Because whole ingots of silver were too massive for buying daily bread, merchants would literally wield an axe and violently chop pieces off the bar, leaving a permanent linguistic scar on the national currency.
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