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Old 2008-03-23, 21:36   Link #130
Tri-ring
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Originally Posted by dahak View Post
Actually depending on period Spice or Tulip smuggling might be more rewarding.

In 1636 1 tulip bulb was reportedly sold for four tons of wheat, eight tons of rye, one bed, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, one suit of clothes, two casks of wine, four tons of beer, two tons of butter, 1,000 pounds of cheese and a silver drinking cup.
Sound more like a Christmas song, it would be perfect if it had, a partridge in a fair tree.
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