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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 1868167" data-attributes="member: 944">Ouch!I always thought the Viking approach to coins was interesting-- silver was rated by weight --  infact they had something called hacksilver -- basically a thin piece of metal you could hack off a chunk of to use as currency This necessates having a scale and maybe a metal cutter but hey what merchant doesn't have those things D&D setting may have magic countermeasures or higher tech solutions like the milled edges --There would also be magic purity detectors -- In the past one of th ebiggest problems with currency was less its weight and more its purity Many governments duilted the currency to make it go farther --  A D&D example -- rather than the 9/1 ratio of a Greyhawk gold piece -- or the 50/50 ratio an electrum Lucky currency in the Flans might be 4/1 for gold  and have70/30 for Electrum pieces. This makes Flans currency worth less than Greyhawk currency and can be a nasty surprise for traders or folks who just looted a dungeon Having older currency be more pure is well in genere too  and a fun way to increase the value of the horse without increasing weightIt also lets Profession/ Minter, Knowledge/ Metalurgy Knowledge/ History or just plain Appraisal get a work out</blockquote>