Definizione

• The Latin name for money, derived from pecus, a Hock of sheep or ;i herd of cattle. This indicates that animals were the earliest mediums of exchange. Sec Homer, Iliad (vi. 235). In the third century the word was used to define the Roman copper money.

  In the Domesday Hook, issued circa 1086, the word is used for cattle almost universally, and in a few instances it has the meaning of possessions or personal property.

Fonte

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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