Fjw70
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Coinage

Thu 06 Oct 2022, 17:52

I don’t see a conversion rate between gold, silver and copper. Did I miss it?
 
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Michele
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Re: Coinage

Fri 07 Oct 2022, 13:54

Good catch! We forgot to include it (but thanks to you, we will add them in the print version).
The exchange rates are the following:

1 gold piece = 10 silver pennies
1 silver penny = 10 copper coins
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Re: Coinage

Fri 07 Oct 2022, 14:36

You are welcome.
 
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Re: Coinage

Fri 07 Oct 2022, 15:56

Aw, I was hoping for something closer to Tolkien's mythos. Something like:

1 gold coin = 20 silver pennies
1 silver penny = 12 copper coins
1 gold coin = 240 copper coins

As taken from the TOR 1E Lake-town Sourcebook.
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Re: Coinage

Fri 07 Oct 2022, 18:17

Aw, I was hoping for something closer to Tolkien's mythos. Something like:

1 gold coin = 20 silver pennies
1 silver penny = 12 copper coins
1 gold coin = 240 copper coins

Well, there isn't really anything canon about exchange rates in Tolkien's works, excluding the coinage system in Gondor (castar, tharni, etc.) from The Peoples of Middle-earth, which we didn't use anyway.
We only know that Bill the pony was bought from Bill Ferny for 12 silver pennies and that it was considered three times its price, but even then, was it because ponies usually cost 4 silver pennies, or because Bill looked so old and starved that it was worth one-third of a normal pony? (eventually, we went with the second hypothesis, a bit more extravagant, but otherwise copper coins would be far more used than any other currency)

So, in the end, ease of conversion took precedence over any conjectures.
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Re: Coinage

Sat 08 Oct 2022, 15:41

As long as the highly inflated D&D prices have been adjusted for the economy of Middle-earth, I can get used to the monetary system as given.
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Fjw70
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Re: Coinage

Sat 08 Oct 2022, 17:04

Thinks are definitely cheaper than standard 5e.
 
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Re: Coinage

Sun 09 Oct 2022, 04:28

Aw, I was hoping for something closer to Tolkien's mythos. Something like:

1 gold coin = 20 silver pennies
1 silver penny = 12 copper coins
1 gold coin = 240 copper coins
That’s not Tolkien, that’s pre-decimal UK (& Australian, NZ, etc.,) currency, near enough.
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Re: Coinage

Sun 09 Oct 2022, 10:56


That’s not Tolkien, that’s pre-decimal UK (& Australian, NZ, etc.,) currency, near enough.
;)
The 1:20:240 division actually dates back to Charlemagne.
 
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Re: Coinage

Sun 09 Oct 2022, 11:46

The 1:20:240 division actually dates back to Charlemagne.
Fair enough.
I'm old enough to remember Australia's pre-decimal currency, but not back to Karl der Große

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