Of course, being a smartarse who wrote half of a book on measurement helps my familiarity with those and many that are more obscure. I also know how much a talent of gold (or other metal) weighs, and tend to laugh uproariously when someone asserts that it was a coin, which a surprising number of people do.
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Date: 2010-02-26 07:55 pm (UTC)