Posted by John Robinson on April 18, 1997 at 23:40:26:
In Reply to: IOUN Stones posted by Brian McCue on April 18, 1997 at 14:32:52:
: In Rhialto the Marvellous (at least), the monetary units of the Dying Earth are named; they are "IOUN stones." I have always assumed that this acronym stands for "I owe you nothing."
: Can anyone substantiate this assumption?
From the Lexicon - IOUN stones are floating, fiery, variously,
shaped magical gems about the size of small plums. They were
mined from nests of black dust at the edge of nothingness, and
were considered by the "archveults" to be the "brain-eggs" of
"fire-folk" living within stars. Per Peter Booth, a terce is described as a "standard coin".