We already talked about coffee, but let us keep talking about hot drinks.Algot Runeman wrote:specie
/ˈspiːʃiː//ˈspiːʃi/
noun
mass noun
Money in the form of coins rather than notes.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin, ablative of species ‘form, kind’, in the phrase in specie ‘in the actual form’.
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It is wise to note that the value of all money, whether digital bits, notes of rag paper or specie, is an agreement we make with one another. I could choose to deliver your salary in urns of salt, as was once apparently done.
If you were Aztec, your salary (or, rather, your chocolatary) might be payed in cocoa beans instead of urns of salt...