[crossfire] Re: I'll commit the large denomination coin archtypes, I'd like to edit the amber coin to look more ambery (any objections)?

[Brendan Lally]

On 12/31/05, Miguel Ghobangieno <mikeeusaa at yahoo.com> wrote:
> While regional currencies exchange values could change
> depending on factors that are not in the game yet the
> silver, plat, gold, jade, and amberonium coins should
> keep their absolute value forever.

Actually, something I think might be interesting would be to have
major and minor currencies.

Consider the (pre-decimalisation) British Currency.
Prices were given in pounds, shillings and pence, 12 p made one
shilling, and 20 shillings one pound

There was a one penny coin, a one shilling coin, and a one pound note.
In principle it was possible to use these, and only these, for
purchasing items. However, there were a number of other coins of
intermediate values which were extensively used to make up
intermediate values, without prices being quoted in them. (note that I
am referencing old British currancy, simply because there were so many
coins of arbitrary values that were issued -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_coinage#Denominations_of_pre-decimal_coins_and_their_years_of_production
looks to be a fairly good list).

Now, what I am wondering, is if the coins with which shops make change
couldn't be the thing that varied, so that money would be taken from
one of 12 or so different types of coins, and change given in a
similar manner (to take an example from the above list, an item which
would require 50 shillings (gold) change might cause it to be given in
the form of two unites and a half unite in one place, but one two
guinea coin and two double florins somewhere else.

These could all be legal tender everywhere, whilst causing a player
who would travel in certain areas of the world to have different types
of coins to someone else elsewhere.

A modern form of this can be seen to a lesser extent with the euro
coins and notes, whilst they lack the amusingly contradictory values,
they have different designs on the reverse depending on which country
they are from, so that a coin with a design from a country relatively
far away is a mild curiosity on the occasions they are encountered.