[shadowlands1960]

It’s like medieval Europe when armed bands roamed all the roads and a traveler had to hire an armed escort


It depends where you were and when. During the reign of the Conqueror's son, Henry I, it was said you could travel all over England with a gold coin attached to your forehead and no bandits would bother you. Henry I was pretty hard on crime, like severe torture before a slow and ugly execution... it worked. Sadly the civil wars between Stephen and Matilda plunged the country into anarchy after Henry's death.

[Fiji Hill]

During the reign of the Conqueror's son, Henry I, it was said you could travel all over England with a gold coin attached to your forehead and no bandits would bother you.

Also, during the second century AD, when the Roman Empire was at its height, it is said that an old woman could load a wagon with bags of gold in Byzantium and drive it all the way to New Carthage, Spain without fear of being attacked by bandits.

[MissEdie]

I have friends from Romania who tell me the country still values Vlad the Impaler because one could leave gold coins on their doorsteps and no one would dare touch them.