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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 5303697" data-attributes="member: 8863">It's because like the older platinum pieces, they're an oddball coin.  They're equal to 5 sp, so it mucks around with the easy decimal system of cp/sp/gp.  Platinum used to be like that, except 5 gp, to the point where I was converting them like that in 3e and shortchanging my players when I randomly rolled treasure (I really didn't bother to take a close look at the coin values in the 3e PHB, and just kept using the 2e exchange rate).  And it's not just that they're worth half a gold piece, all the prices in the PHB are routinely listed in cp/sp/gp, so they just add more complexity to the game.  Platinum pieces and astral diamonds at least are convenient for making large sums of money more portable; ep don't do much because you can just convert silver pieces in to gold or platinum, and just skip electrum.</blockquote>