かね
money
It comes out of the ground in two small lumps, gets weighed, and ends up on a counter paying for something. A cane かね would have cost him less: this one came to more than he had: かね.
Almost always お金 when you say it. Bare 金 turns up in compounds, where it is usually きん and means gold.
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