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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7269311" data-attributes="member: 6683613">You want a realistic economy?The city of Porraz mints golden coins known as coronas, 108 to the troy pound. Below that, it has two different denominations of silver coin: the heavy gauntlet (22 to the troy pound) and the little stud (11 to the gauntlet or 242 to the troy pound). The current relative prices of silver and gold are such that a a corona is worth approximately 8 gauntlets, but in past decades it has been as high as 1:20 and as low as 1:1. Porraz is a trading hub and its coinage is well known in the immediate area of the Cauldron Sea. At least three other cities on the Sea mint their own coronas, gauntlets, and studs in similar sizes. However, the coronas of Hopshur are known to be heavily debased after a period of economic mismanagement, and may be as little as 35% gold with value diminished accordingly. The demand for gold is high in Hopshur, and non-debased gold coins may go further there than in other places. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Cauldron Sea, the Free Port of Ennestrai, although it calls its coins coronas, gauntlets, and studs, mints them in entirely different weights: 99 coronas to the troy pound of gold, 18 gauntlets to the troy pound of silver, and 14 studs to the gauntlet. And a bit down the coast, Ungorum stubbornly maintains the coinage system from the long-lost days of the Ungoric Imperium, based not on the troy pound but the talent (approximately 59 and a half pounds). The standard unit is the silver hand (not to be confused with the gauntlet), 6,000 hands to the talent. There are also smaller silver finger coins, which you might be forgiven for thinking are five to the hand, but are actually six. Ungorum has not minted gold coins since the days of the Imperium, but those heavy golden lions (2,350 to the talent) might still be seen here and there, especially by the sorts of people who tend to come into contact with ancient treasure hoards. Of course, throwing around golden lions in the modern economy might attract considerable attention. Merchants are likely to be reluctant to accept it, or at least to accept it at full value, because of the difficulty of re-spending it. And, although this is a historical fact forgotten by most, lions from the late Imperium were debased even more heavily than the Hopshur corona, which could lead to some unpleasantness the first time somebody thinks to weigh them.And then there's the matter of foreign currencies. The Ashgarl traders who caravan down from the north bring a completely different set of coins in strange, oblong shapes...</blockquote>

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