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Malcadon
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Re: Copper standard
« Reply #15 on May 29, 2012, 10:00pm »

May 26, 2012, 10:30am, geoffrey wrote:

I also prefer a copper standard. I do, however, like lots of different coins. I steal Gary's coinage system from his first Gord the Rogue novel:

"The lowest form of currency is an iron drab. Five of these are equal to one brass bit, and ten bits comprise one bronze zee. The copper common is the next most valuable, equal to five zees, and four commons make up the value of one silver noble. An electrum lucky is equal to five nobles, and ten luckies are the same worth as one gold orb. Atop the pyramid is the platinum plate, equal to one gold orb plus one electrum lucky. Thus, for comparison, a silver noble is worth one thousand iron drabs, an electrum lucky equates to one thousand brass bits, a gold orb has the same value as one thousand brass bits, a gold orb has the same value as one thousand bronze zees, and a platinum plate is equal to fifty five thousand iron drabs."

OK, I just ran the numbers:

	id	bb	bz	cc	sn	el	go	pp
1 ip =	1	.20	.02	.004	.001	.0002	.00002	.000018
1 bb =	5	1	.10	.02	.005	.0001	.00001	.00009
1 bz =	50	10	1	.20	.05	.01	.001	.0009
1 cc =	250	50	5	1	.25	.05	.005	.0045
1 sn =	1000	200	20	4	1	.25	.02	.018
1 el =	5000	1000	100	20	5	1	.10	.09
1 go =	50000	10000	1000	200	50	10	1	.90
1 pp =	55000	11000	1100	220	55	11	1.1	1

==KEY==
id = iron drab
bb = brass bit
bz = bronze zee
cc = copper common
sn = silver noble
el = electrum lucky
go = gold orb
pp = platinum plate

It was a bit of work (figuring-out the platinum values, and the table codes), but here it is. There is an error in the top quote:

"The lowest form of currency is an iron drab. Five of these are equal to one brass bit, and ten bits comprise one bronze zee. The copper common is the next most valuable, equal to five zees, and four commons make up the value of one silver noble. An electrum lucky is equal to five nobles, and ten luckies are the same worth as one gold orb. Atop the pyramid is the platinum plate, equal to one gold orb plus one electrum lucky. Thus, for comparison, a silver noble is worth one thousand iron drabs, an electrum lucky equates to one thousand brass bits, ~~a gold orb has the same value as one thousand brass bits,~~ a gold orb has the same value as one thousand bronze zees, and a platinum plate is equal to fifty five thousand iron drabs."

Although, the values are irregular for most players, but if they were applied like in real life, one will get wildly absurd conversions and fluctuating unit values, like with the coinage from Harry Potter.

I really like finding coins and values for coins that are less then copper, as well as names for coins in different settings. Thank for the find!

(edit: after some re-calc, zeros were removed form the platinum side of the chart - they come out to .9 to most coins; ones highlighted for clarity)

« Last Edit: May 30, 2012, 1:44am by Malcadon »

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Re: Copper standard
« Reply #16 on May 30, 2012, 12:01am »

Good catch. Instead of reading "a gold orb has the same value as one thousand brass bits", it should read "a gold orb has the same value as ten thousand brass bits".

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