[Skybird]

Depends on the reölative value of gold on the local black market, the availability of food in general, and the assessment of the guy whether he can hold out a bit longer and get a thiosuand times as much food later on with my gold, if he hungers halöf a day longer only instead of taking your basket of food.

Can't you get the logic? It makes no sense to question what I said about thwe two kinds of money by just referring to a single, constructed scenario trying to make that a - nonwokring - proof for the invalidity of my descpriptions. The market and the way it changes the values of items all the time is much more than just one local scenarios. It is the interaction resulting from ever changing conditions between sellers and buyers.

Even if the sailor is short of starving, what I say remaisn to be true: that the request and availability defines the value of goods and commodities and that his interest for food over gold decides whether he accepts my basket of gold or your basket of foods. It is dynamic value-finding, always. Non-static like you seem to base on.