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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6593525" data-attributes="member: 22424">In 1st Ed (and BECMI) encumbrance was actually in coins. 2nd Ed switched to pounds; I wasn't able to find a weight for coins in that edition, but 100 rings a bell.FWIW, the UK £1 coin is roughly 50 to a pound, so that's a good rule of thumb for me. 100 to the pound is ridiculously light, especially if the coin is made of gold.Realistically, though, the weights probably shouldn't be fixed - not only because the metals themselves will vary wildly in purity, but also because the coins won't be manufactured to any standard process - indeed, a "gold piece" may well mean something very different from one end of the contient to the other. There's no reason to think that 10gp the party just found in that ancient temple bears any real resemblance to the coins they've grown up with.</blockquote>