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LEs monnoies furent establis pour
tant que ilz navoient pas de toutes cho
ses necessaires ensemble. Lun avoit ble
laultre avoit vin et laultre drap ou aultres deurees
Celui qui avoit du ble navoit point du vin sans
changier lun a laultre. Si convenoit que journelle
ment ilz changassent les ungs aux aultres pour avoir
che quilz navoient pas comme ceulx qui aultrement ne
le savoient faire. Quant les philosophes veirent ce
ilz firent tant quilz establirent vers les seigneurs jadiz
regnans une petite chose legiere dont ung chascun en
peust tant porter quil en peust ailleurs achater che que
mestier lui seroit et che quil lui convendroit pour sa vie
Si eulrent adviz ensemble de ordonner aulcune petite
chose qui ne fust pas trop ville ne trop chiere tenue et
quelle eust aulcune valeur pour marchander et user de
leale marchandise les ungs avec les aultres par ver
tu de celle enseigne et quelle fust commune par tout et
en toutes manieres. Si establirent lors une petite mon
noie tenue pour aler par le monde. Et pur che quel
le menoit les gens par les voies fut elle ditte monnoie

Money was established because people did not
have everything they needed all together. One person had wheat,
another had wine, and yet another had cloth or other necessities.
The one who had wheat did not have wine unless he
exchanged the one thing for the other. People had to
exchange one thing for another every day in order to get
what they did not have, as people who did not know how
to do otherwise. When the philosophers saw this, they
arranged with the lords who were ruling to make
a small, light thing that each person could
carry, which he could use to buy what he needed
and what was necessary for his life. And so they [the lords],
taking counsel together, ordered a certain small thing to be made that was not
too cheap nor too dear, and that had a set value, to buy and sell and use
with each other for all legal merchandise, by means of
this symbol, and it came into common use everywhere and in
all situations. Then they established a small coin
to be used for going out in the world. Since
it led people along the way sentence ends next page]

LEs monnoies furent establis pour
tant que ilz navoient pas de toutes cho
ses necessaires ensemble. Lun avoit ble
laultre avoit vin et laultre drap ou aultres deurees
Celui qui avoit du ble navoit point du vin sans
changier lun a laultre. Si convenoit que journelle
ment ilz changassent les ungs aux aultres pour avoir
che quilz navoient pas comme ceulx qui aultrement ne
le savoient faire. Quant les philosophes veirent ce
ilz firent tant quilz establirent vers les seigneurs jadiz
regnans une petite chose legiere dont ung chascun en
peust tant porter quil en peust ailleurs achater che que
mestier lui seroit et che quil lui convendroit pour sa vie
Si eulrent adviz ensemble de ordonner aulcune petite
chose qui ne fust pas trop ville ne trop chiere tenue et
quelle eust aulcune valeur pour marchander et user de
leale marchandise les ungs avec les aultres par ver
tu de celle enseigne et quelle fust commune par tout et
en toutes manieres. Si establirent lors une petite mon
noie tenue pour aler par le monde. Et pur che quel
le menoit les gens par les voies fut elle ditte monnoie

Money was established because people did not
have everything they needed all together. One person had wheat,
another had wine, and yet another had cloth or other necessities.
The one who had wheat did not have wine unless he
exchanged the one thing for the other. People had to
exchange one thing for another every day in order to get
what they did not have, as people who did not know how
to do otherwise. When the philosophers saw this, they
arranged with the lords who were ruling to make
a small, light thing that each person could
carry, which he could use to buy what he needed
and what was necessary for his life. And so they [the lords],
taking counsel together, ordered a certain small thing to be made that was not
too cheap nor too dear, and that had a set value, to buy and sell and use
with each other for all legal merchandise, by means of
this symbol, and it came into common use everywhere and in
all situations. Then they established a small coin
to be used for going out in the world. Since
it led people along the way,