"Real" Gold Pieces

[Kae'Yoss]

I was wondering: Are there any affordable play money gold pieces around? I know the pirate plunder poker box, but that's a tad too expensive for my likes. There has to be someone who made plastic gold pieces for roleplayers.

(In case you wonder, I'd like them mainly for Three Dragon Ante)

 

[Agent Oracle]

Actually... i use Chocolate coins. They hold up well during the betting, and when the night is over, you can eat your rewards.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Buy some poker chips, and spray-paint them gold.

 

[Aeric]

I have an entire treasure chest filled with plastic gold coins. I use it as a prop in the LARP I'm currently playing in. I got the coins from a party store; they were $7 for a bag of 50, I think. Not the cheapest, but there you go.

 

[Technomancer]

I have an entire treasure chest filled with plastic gold coins. I use it as a prop in the LARP I'm currently playing in. I got the coins from a party store; they were $7 for a bag of 50, I think. Not the cheapest, but there you go.

Agreed, a party supply store is your best bet.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I was in Savannah earlier this summer, and some of the tourist stores had coins, both metal and plastic.... Something might be available online.

 

[Wombat]

Might I suggest brass or copper washers?

I have used washers (of various types) as coinage in several games and the players love them!

 

[Turhan]

You can also buy a can of gold spray paint for 3-4$ and paint pennies (wash them sith hot soapy water first and make sure they're clean.

Pennies are about the size of a lot of real coins from antiquity. They may look phony, but then everything but the real mccoy will...

 

[Umbran]

... sith hot soapy water ...

I am sorry, I cannot resist...

Darth Body Wash?

<glub glub> Luke, I am your father! <glub glub>

 

[taliesin15]

Just for the record, American Gold Eagles and Krugerands are pretty pricey--somewhere in the hundreds of dollars--I would guess at least $350, maybe up to double that by now, but its been a while since I've checked.

I do have a one ounce silver coin minted by the Liberty Dollar folks, which costs around $10, last time I checked. I think Liberty Dollar will also sell a tenth ounce gold coin.

The reason I mention this is all the suggestios, while being cheap ones, will not have at all the weight of a gold coin. Maybe the gold spray paint on a lead coin? You might have less kevetching about how encumbering carrying 1000 gold coins in yr PC's backpack is if players could feel how heavy real gold is. One time a local jewelry store hosted some treasure hunters who had found the wreck of a Spanish galleon somewhere in the Gulf. Fascinating stuff. Anyhow, I got to handle a gold bar, which looked like it might weigh a pound, maybe 10 inches by 5" by 4"--it was much closer to 50 lbs!