November — Citrine & Topaz

Citrine has been called the merchant's stone for so long that the reason has almost been forgotten. It was kept where money was counted — not as a charm, as a habit.

Topaz has been carrying somebody else's name for two thousand years. Pliny recorded a green stone from an island in the Red Sea and called it topazos; the island produced peridot. The name stuck to the wrong mineral and never came off.

November has both on the modern list. We set both.