Spice and Wolf ep. 3
[ Episode 3: Wolf and Business Sense ]
Looking at this episode I think Horo would make an awesome accountant. Her business sense is keen though that’s to be expected from all of her years. Still, I found it amazing how Horo was able to sell those pelts at 210 silvers compared to Lawrence’s 140 pieces. Given that most of what she said was total BS I think many a person would fall for her trickery because it was just that convincing. It’s pretty funny and amazing that she seemed to have planned the whole thing out or at least thought about it after she bought those apples when they first entered Pattsio.
Horo and Lawrence also met with up that annoying guy again, Zeiren. Does that guy ever open his eyes? Anyway, Lawrence and him make the deal they discussed in the previous episode but Lawrence and Horo find out that the silver content in the new coins decreased after visiting Weiss, a money-exchanger. I don’t know what to say about him but he seems to be an alright guy though I don’t think we’ll be seeing much of him in the future or at all.
I particularly liked this episode since the discussion about currency really intrigued me. As I am a near-graduate in accounting and business/economics in general I couldn’t help but be immersed into the whole quality and foreign currency discussions. I’m wondering what Lawrence and Horo are going to do now though since Lawrence seems to be onto something involving the new coins he exchanged for.
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The currency exchange discussion was a little hard for me to follow, although I did find it interesting. I know the value of a curreny is not necessarily worth the paper it’s printed on, but I didn’t understand how trading old coins for new ones got you anything if they were still worth the same. I know the copper in pennies is supposed to be worth more than the penny itself. Were they thinking they could melt the coins down and extract the silver or something?
I guess they would have been able to measure the silver content much easier by melting it down but then that’ll just be one less coin for spending use.
That’s only true if the coin’s metal is worth less than the coin itself.
I don’t think there are many ways to determine it otherwise, regardless of the worth of the metal. Well, whatever the case we know that the silver content is lower than the old coin thanks to Horo.
Though Horo’s method isn’t exactly reliable normally unless you’re, well, Horo.