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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NLP" data-source="post: 375723" data-attributes="member: 520">Well, the examples I was using were from 17th through early 20th century America. I just used the word "Lord" instead of Government. As far as bows, peasants who have them either made them or traded something they do have to someone who makes them. Once again this is a barter thing. "My wife makes great quilts, you make great long bows. How about 5 quilts, two pigs, and one week's free field work for a bow?"The best way for you to come to grips with the money is to assign a real world value to the gold. If a mug of beer is 2 CP, and you know a beer costs $2.00 for a big mug where you live, then 1 CP = $1.00. Then just compute it up from there based on whatever dollar amount you currently have money being worth. So if you use 1 GP = 10 SP = 100 CP then 1 GP equals $100.00. In modern US society it is fairly difficult to live on less than $1000.00 per month, which is 10 GP. But that is the average US economy. In Mexico you can live VERY WELL on $1,000.00 per month. In the Dominican Replublic a person could live half the year on $1,000.00. There is no way to give a fixed answer to your question as it entirely depends on the society which you are trying to emulate.</blockquote>