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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 1866981" data-attributes="member: 24969">Well, I've seen mithril and adamandite pieces before in campaigns, but those really don't count as it's still metal rariety. There are two main troubles for such a currency IMHO. One, it's not durable. Once you use it, it disapears. Gold may get used to make jewery or gild a statue, but it can still be turned back into GPs in most cases. Two, for the demand to be high enough, it would either have to be useful to anyone who has it in their possesion or there must be enough magic for a high enough demand. With the amount of clerics and wizards in a normal campaign, perhaps. I haven't looked ar Eberron, but it has been explained to me as an industrialized magic setting. Thus, someplace like this may have enough of a uniform demand for such a currency.Another choice for an alternate fantasy world currency would be back to paper money or other forms of token created by magic. Thus, the high level wizard in charge of the kingdoms mint knows the spell to create such paper notes or magic token that the government will honor for a certain amount of gold or silver if turned in to them. The main trouble as with paper currency is counterfitting, but inorder to counterfit it, they'd have to know the spell or duplicate its research and then be a high level wizard to cast it. It might even require that the casting wizard have a high enough forgery skill to do it good enough to pass making it even harder to counterfit.</blockquote>

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