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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8381187" data-attributes="member: 72555">I wrote something up for 4e a while ago.The core is:The currency units in this version are as follows:A Copper Piece is the size of a quarter. 100 weigh 1 lb.100 Copper Pieces = 1 Silver Piece. A SP is the size of a quarter. 100 weigh 1 lb.100 Silver Pieces = 1 Gold Piece. A GP is the size of a Penny. 100 weigh 1 lb.1000 Gold Pieces = 1 Mithril Piece. A MP is the size of a Penny. ~3000 weigh 1 lb. Mithril pieces float in salt water, and sink in fresh water.1000 Mithril Pieces = 1 Astral Diamond. Astral Diamonds are naturally crystallized residuum. Each is about 2 mm in diameter, or 1/16th of an inch, and have variable weight. (Really. Weigh them twice, and you get different results.)The silver standard is used; prices for non-magical items are translated where 1 GP becomes either 1 SP or 2 SP.Rarer currencies:100 GP =~ 1 Platinum Imperial. A PI is the size of a quarter, but thicker. 100 weigh ~3 lbs.Gold Imperial = size of a quarter, but thicker =~ 3 GP. 100 weigh ~3 lbs.Mithril Imperial. Also the size of the quarter, but thicker. 1000 weigh ~1 lbs, each are worth about 3 and 1/3 standard MP each.These provide texture.  The "Imperals" refer to an older culture with a larger coinage that people today don't use.  The size of a SP matches the old imperial coin, but it is thinner and made out of silver not gold.Copper bits are 3 to a CP, and silver bits are 3 to a SP.CP, SP and GP all have the same weight -- a coinweight is standard, and merchants can use CP to weight GP to know if they are the right weight.---I wouldn't use this in a game where magic item prices are followed slavishly.The goal was to have an economic system where there is a dragon sitting on a literal hill of gold.1 single MP is worth the same as 10 pounds of gold, and 1 astral diamond is worth 5 tonnes of gold; for MP/AD to be real currency, the material plane needs to be an impoverished slum.</blockquote>

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