"Real" Gold Pieces
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Bardsandsages
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Have you checked out the toy section in your local dollar store? I see bags of toy money and stuff all the time in mine. Yes, I LOVE dollar stores. You find the wackiest, useful stuff in them. Like this Noah's Ark fake ceramic set that was the perfect size for minis that I found.
I have multiple suggestions for you.
1) check out a Party Pig store, or any party supply store. Go to the Pirate Party theme section. There you will find bags of gold dubloons. They might also be in the Mardi-Gras section.
2) check out a teacher supply store. I went to one called Teacher Heaven here in Austin, and they had some very cool looking gold goins (which I bought them out of) that looked very accurate. But they also had plastic coins. They had bags of plastic nickles, dimes quarter, dollars, half dollars, pennies and silver dollars. Plastic Sacajawea dollars. They had coins from several different manufacturers and combination kits that would work ideally for low level campaigns where you use copper, silver and gold coins.
3) Use Shrinky Dinks. Find some pictures of cool looking coins on the internet, and cut and paste them into a word document. Or just draw them out inside circles on a sheet of paper. You will have to make them bigger because they will shrink when you bake them. Then cut them out (you definitely want to cut them out first). You can even use a yellow marker to color them an appropriate color. Then you bake them following the directions and they shrink and thicken and become very durable hard plastic coins to your own exacting specifications.
4) Use monopoly money. If you don't have any, you can print your own. Check out this link here: http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/pl/page.treasurechest/dn/default.cfm
5) Use Fantasy Money availabe at this link here: http://shop.enworld.org/index.php?productsid=1855&source=frontpagead
6) Make your own "paper" gold money with clipart or drawing it yourself. Attached is one I did and which I use in my game. Print different denominations out on different colored paper. Go to an office supply store and buy a pack of colored paper.
I use red paper for copper coins, grey for silver, plastic gold dubloons for gold pieces, light blue paper for platinum, goldenrod for 100 gold bills, and green for 1000 gold piece bills which will become handy at higher levels. Honestly the color coding is practically essential to make them handy for quick transactions in a game, so go to the slight expense of using colored paper if you are going to to do this. We use this money exclusively to track wealth in my home campaign.
1) check out a Party Pig store, or any party supply store. Go to the Pirate Party theme section. There you will find bags of gold dubloons. They might also be in the Mardi-Gras section.
2) check out a teacher supply store. I went to one called Teacher Heaven here in Austin, and they had some very cool looking gold goins (which I bought them out of) that looked very accurate. But they also had plastic coins. They had bags of plastic nickles, dimes quarter, dollars, half dollars, pennies and silver dollars. Plastic Sacajawea dollars. They had coins from several different manufacturers and combination kits that would work ideally for low level campaigns where you use copper, silver and gold coins.
3) Use Shrinky Dinks. Find some pictures of cool looking coins on the internet, and cut and paste them into a word document. Or just draw them out inside circles on a sheet of paper. You will have to make them bigger because they will shrink when you bake them. Then cut them out (you definitely want to cut them out first). You can even use a yellow marker to color them an appropriate color. Then you bake them following the directions and they shrink and thicken and become very durable hard plastic coins to your own exacting specifications.
4) Use monopoly money. If you don't have any, you can print your own. Check out this link here: http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/pl/page.treasurechest/dn/default.cfm
5) Use Fantasy Money availabe at this link here: http://shop.enworld.org/index.php?productsid=1855&source=frontpagead
6) Make your own "paper" gold money with clipart or drawing it yourself. Attached is one I did and which I use in my game. Print different denominations out on different colored paper. Go to an office supply store and buy a pack of colored paper.
I use red paper for copper coins, grey for silver, plastic gold dubloons for gold pieces, light blue paper for platinum, goldenrod for 100 gold bills, and green for 1000 gold piece bills which will become handy at higher levels. Honestly the color coding is practically essential to make them handy for quick transactions in a game, so go to the slight expense of using colored paper if you are going to to do this. We use this money exclusively to track wealth in my home campaign.
My friends once payed their share of the expenses on a road trip to me with two hundred gold dollars.
They handed them to me in a green velvet bag, and i had to figure out how to spend two hundred gp.
I took them to the renfest, and let my kids spnd them. We spent the entire day paying in gold pieces.
They handed them to me in a green velvet bag, and i had to figure out how to spend two hundred gp.
I took them to the renfest, and let my kids spnd them. We spent the entire day paying in gold pieces.
Hunter In Darkness
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man bald hero thats just cool
I am a performer at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. One of the things I do before the start of the run, and periodically through the run, is hit my local banks for dollar coins and half dollar coins. I never use paper money to pay for things during the show hours, and it is great to have a pouch of coins available. Of course, I like spending them in the off season as well, mainly because it drives some retailers batty.BaldHero said:
As for the original question, I have taken washers and metal spacers, covered them with either metallic foils or paint, and used those as prop coins. Also, if you hunt around toy stors you can sometimes find old "pog slammers" which are metal and have great designs on them. There are also party stores that carry pirate themed stuff, but I am unsure of their existance outside the US.
My final suggestion is to find someone in the US who can go to one of these places and send the stuff to you. I've done that in sort of thing in the past for friends in England, and shipping is not bad at all.
frankthedm
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Much like the D&D movie, those coins were a dissapointment. :\.thalmin said:
Now the Kennedy half dollar, that's a real coin!
