Mab
11:30am, December 23, 2004
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[Delete] | We're going to weigh the worth of all of these coins by an easily measurable commodity for comparison. Other examples of what an amount can buy may be thrown in, but all the coins are going to be measured by how much grain you can buy with it, just for a gauge.
1 coplet = 1/10 lb of grain, enough for a small roll, if mixed with other ingredients. OR It can buy one cup of very, very cheap meade.
1 nicklet = 5 coplets = 1/2 lb of grain, enough for a loaf of bread. OR It can buy 2 glasses of decent meade or ale OR a small sized meal for one.
1 diton = 2 nicklets = 1 lbs of grain OR 2 loaves of bread OR 1 glass of the best meade or ale in a place OR a whole jug of the cheapest meade. OR Will buy a small sized meal for two OR a decent sized meal for one.
1 quarf = 2 ditons & 1 nicklet = 2 and 1/2 lbs of grain OR 5 loaves of bread OR a jug of the best ale in the place OR one night stay in an inn in the most basic kind of room.
1 centon = 4 quarfs = 10 lbs of grain OR 20 loaves of bread OR a bottle of decent wine OR one night stay in an inn in a nicer, but still not the best, room.
1 silver = 20 centons = 200 lbs of grain OR 400 loaves of bread (needless to say, bread is not normally bought with a silver)OR a bottle of the most refined and very best quality wine that only the wealthy tend to squander funds on OR 2 nights stay in what is generally an inn's very best suite. (A middle class peasant will not likely be carrying around more than one or two silvers and would mark it a tragic loss if such were to be stolen and would not likely squandor them on needless luxuries)
1 gold = 10 silvers = 2000 lbs of grain OR an acre of fertil land or decent property OR (for countries that condone or tolerate slavery, which is most human and some magic kingdoms on Bettenchi) 1 average, full-grown, no younger than 19 and no older than 40, worker-class slave OR a decent young horse. (the likelyhood of a middle class peasant carrying around a gold is very slim. They might have one or two gold, but they'd keep them guarded and only bring them out for the purchase for which they were saved up.)
1 platinum = 10 gold = 20,000 lbs of grain OR 10 acres of fertil land or decent property (land ain't cheap on Bettenchi)OR 10 worker slaves OR 1 refined and high quality entertainer slave OR 1 educated slave OR 10 decent horses OR 5 prized horses (for a middle class peasant to even have a platinum would be highly suspicious and nobles and wealthy merchants don't generally go carrying them around)
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