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    1. Currency once used in current-day Slovakia
    2. Richard Yanco
    3. I am trying to get through a book on the early days of Slovakia, and was wondering if someone could help me put the following monetary units into some sort of perspective. dena'r (dinar?) gros~ (groschen?) zlaty'ch (gulden?) Not sure if those are plural or not. I checked an English dictionary, which turned up little more than "check the table of monetary units," which in turn told where currency with those names are used *today*. Basically, I'm wondering which monetary units were once used in present-day Slovakia, plus when and which nations they were from. All references in this chapter seem to be from 1775-1800 or thereabouts. Also, can each be expressed in terms of another (e.g., 100 X = 1 Y)? Is there any way to know how much these units were "worth"? FWIW, dena'r and gros~ are in a passage about the Liptov comitat charging villages money for not exterminating a specified quota of nuisance birds; zlaty'ch is used in a discussion of a teacher's salary. If someone knows of a good reference book, that would be just as useful to me as the answers outright -- but the answers would be nice. :) Thanks very much, Rick

    07/01/1998 02:39:37