I like this idea because it fits with finding them in coin hoards and it seems practical - a simpler way for a merchant to check the value of coins without a scale and set of precision weights.
Doesn’t that one also present a problem for the popular knitting theory? Aren’t the holes supposed to show the finger size or something? (I’m not positive, as a knitter this seems really unusual for knitting).
Ya know my dumbass mixed up coin sorter and coin holder. But that does present another idea, do you think you could slot a coin in between the little nubs? Basically an antiquaties version of those belt coin holders?
Not really, look up nalbinding. That old way of knitting used one thumb and a needle instead of two needles. all those knobs could have been used in place of your left thumb.
I like this idea because it fits with finding them in coin hoards and it seems practical - a simpler way for a merchant to check the value of coins without a scale and set of precision weights.
But this one presents a problem:
Doesn’t that one also present a problem for the popular knitting theory? Aren’t the holes supposed to show the finger size or something? (I’m not positive, as a knitter this seems really unusual for knitting).
Ya know my dumbass mixed up coin sorter and coin holder. But that does present another idea, do you think you could slot a coin in between the little nubs? Basically an antiquaties version of those belt coin holders?
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Not really, look up nalbinding. That old way of knitting used one thumb and a needle instead of two needles. all those knobs could have been used in place of your left thumb.