I've been working on the #Homeric moves for my #pbta #ttrpg
It led me down a fascinating rabbit hole about money in #Mycenaean Greece.
I'd done some reading before, but I just found a very nice article* and took a nice dive into Linear B tablets from the palace of Pylos and the commodities used in the Late #BronzeAge exchange economy.
(*J.Zurbach "Metal money before coinage in the Aegean, ca. 1400-1600 BC")
Wool, skins, goats, barley, oil, honey, wine, figs were commonly recorded in exchanges and there was even a fairly standard rate of value between these.
But what's most fascinating to me is the evidence that roughly cut pieces of gold (and rarely of silver or electrum) were used as payment. Such pieces & ingots of metals had an exchange value even if there weren't minted coins!
I love this stuff! It fascinates me and it's why I'm making this game!
