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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4003432" data-attributes="member: 1003">I'm not sure bronze is a good idea as a coinage (tin is cheaper than copper, so it would actually be worth less than a copper piece; plus there's always a problem when alloys are uses as coins, since you can never be sure how much of each metal are in the coin).But in general I see your point.It might be also be worthwhile to space out the value between silver and gold a bit.  D&D assumes a 10:1 valuation, but right now (in the real world) it's currently 55:1.  You could make more use of trade bars, or "bits" and "coins", where a bit is 1/8th of a coin.  The standard currency could be silver bits, while a gold bit is actually worth 8 silver coins (64:1).  A single gold coin would then be worth 512 s.b., enough to live comfortably for weeks or months (depending on your lifestyle).(You'd have to assume that a "coin" is about the size of a Spanish doubloon (with a diameter of at least two inches) and easily cut into eighths at your local blacksmith)I find this math easy, but those of you more used to a metric system would probably have issues trying to count in powers of two, unless you're a computer person. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>