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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRGreathouse" data-source="post: 3194013" data-attributes="member: 474">I think there are plenty of reasons.  Orcs and ogres trade coins amongst themselves for the same reasons humans and dwarves do: convenience.  Monsters that are more nearly accepted in human lands, like centaurs and hobgoblins, may also trade with conventional races -- perhaps through intermediaries such as merchants and bandits.Some will collect coins because they can attract their prey:Some monsters collect coins instinctively, like ravens to buttons and mirrors.  Others collect because of greed (the better to buy their desires) or plain avarice, of which dragons are often guilty.  Spellcasting creatures collect gems and precious metals as components, while devils and demons collect riches that they might tempt mortals into depravity.Surely there are motives beside these, but these are the first to come to mind.Exponentially?  Like monsters and humans value coins equally at one point, but every given interval monsters value coins half as much as the interval before?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>