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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6994799"><p>I was about to say the same thing. I mean there are spells to turn one metal into another metal, there are spells to literally create matter out of mag*cough*energy*cough*ic. There are monsters that eat precious metals, there are monsters that poop precious metals, there are whole planes made out of precious metals! With the right spell, you too can make one! </p><p></p><p>There's a manifold issue with gold in D&D which DMs could use to address the overabundance of gold issue:</p><p>Gold coins have been minted for thousands of years by thousands of civilizations throughout history. There's no reason that a gold coin from Ancient Kingdom A should be worth as much as a gold coin in Current Civilization B, which leads to my second point. All gold has raw material value of course, but minting gold coinage gives it a social and economic value beyond it's simple material value. Even in historical reality minted precious metal coins had value in part because they were produced by a stable government that could back up, regulate and enforce their use. Raw gold still held value of course, but less because the cleaning, melting and minting process costs money. </p><p></p><p>To make a long story short: the coins players loot from an ancient dragon trove may be worth absolutely no real monetary value and instead only worth their raw gold value. The only thing you can really do with these coins to get real money are A: sell them to collectors (and your overabundance of them just brought down their value) or B: sell them at an exchange for a fraction of their value. There's absolutely no reason a barkeep or a trader would accept a strange coin over a familiar one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6994799"] I was about to say the same thing. I mean there are spells to turn one metal into another metal, there are spells to literally create matter out of mag*cough*energy*cough*ic. There are monsters that eat precious metals, there are monsters that poop precious metals, there are whole planes made out of precious metals! With the right spell, you too can make one! There's a manifold issue with gold in D&D which DMs could use to address the overabundance of gold issue: Gold coins have been minted for thousands of years by thousands of civilizations throughout history. There's no reason that a gold coin from Ancient Kingdom A should be worth as much as a gold coin in Current Civilization B, which leads to my second point. All gold has raw material value of course, but minting gold coinage gives it a social and economic value beyond it's simple material value. Even in historical reality minted precious metal coins had value in part because they were produced by a stable government that could back up, regulate and enforce their use. Raw gold still held value of course, but less because the cleaning, melting and minting process costs money. To make a long story short: the coins players loot from an ancient dragon trove may be worth absolutely no real monetary value and instead only worth their raw gold value. The only thing you can really do with these coins to get real money are A: sell them to collectors (and your overabundance of them just brought down their value) or B: sell them at an exchange for a fraction of their value. There's absolutely no reason a barkeep or a trader would accept a strange coin over a familiar one. [/QUOTE]
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