Talk:Spesmilo

Context
The context of this article is unclear. What does it have to do with Esperanto? I've removed the Esperanto template and categories pending some kind of explanation in the article itself. Melchoir 00:29, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Spesmilo has to do with Esperanto because it was devised by, and created for, trade esperantists’ organizations. The names (speso and spesmilo) are in Esperanto, too. 62.48.171.17 14:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

It still indicates there are no references, but with the one I've just added I count three. (I added ) 71.126.60.111 (talk) 22:20, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Mono
The link to mono as "the current esperantist international currency" seems wrong. As I commented on that article, mono is a performance art prank, and one that most Esperantists have probably never heard of. I don't believe it's a real currency and certainly not "the" currency of the Esperanto community. Well, in that sense "spesmilo" and "stelo" were never "the" currency of the Esperanto community; they were just ideas proposed by a few people, that may have gained some interested from some part of the community. But "mono" isn't even that -- it's some guy who printed up pieces of paper as an art project. -- Jacob Schwartz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.47.146.202 (talk) 23:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

etymology; size
The basic unit, the speso (from Latin spes, "hope" ...), was purposely made very small to avoid fractions.

Is there a source for this etymology? I always thought speso came from specie!

Is it known why 733 micrograms was the unit? Was this perhaps an average or median of selected small fractions of existing currencies? —Tamfang (talk) 19:45, 14 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah. This page says René de Saussure conceived the speso in 1907, taking its name from the French word espèce – one of whose meanings (in plural, espèces) is metal coinage.
 * That page also says the spesmilo is 0.8 grams of "karata oro" viz 11/12 pure gold — a bit easier to understand than 0.733! —Tamfang (talk) 19:54, 14 October 2012 (UTC)