Below will be a list of currencies used on Aedra. The list will expand as players encounter different cultures in the game.
Vindran currency
General information
The continent of Vindr uses copper, silver, and gold coins as currency.
Silver Standard
Most of the countries and city states of the Vindr region use silver for their standard currency.
Centuries ago, the states of Vindr agreed to a standard weight measurement for coins to promote fair and equitable trade. Known as the Vindran Standard, it established the base coin weight as 1/100th of a pound, known as a mark. All coins must weigh a mark, be divisible by a mark, or be a whole fraction of a mark.
This allows coins to be easily converted between currencies without requiring scales and complex mathematics. To put it another way, a bag of silver coins worth 100 marks will always weigh 1 pound, regardless the actual size of the coins within it.
Bullion
Gold coins are generally reserved as bullion, i.e. used to store value rather than circulated. They are found mostly in banks and the vaults of powerful merchants or nobles. Gold coins are valued at 50 times that of a silver coin of equal size.
Rounds
Copper or bronze coins, known as rounds, are stamped by privately owned mints. They are often used as a form of complementary currency to protect or stimulate local economies.
An example is a mine owner paying his workers in copper rounds that can only be spent on local goods he owns and service he provides.
Rounds will have little to no value outside the region they are minted. Their metal value is 1/10th that of silver.
Names and value of coins
Note: during normal game play the type of coins will not be specified nor have any sort of impact. The value of silver earned or found will be described in denars and assumed to be of various coins common to the region.
The below information is mostly superficial.
Other currencies
There are several small cultures in and around the Vindran region that have their own unique currencies. These are listed below.
Sefta Azarite Beads
The Sefta are a nomadic people that wander the Savaterem Desert south of Vindr. They use as currency polished azarite stones. These blue stones are semi-rare; only discovered under the sands of the shifting dunes.
Value: 2 denar each.
Taureg Fruit Seeds
Taureg seeds come from the Taureg plant, an ancient cactus found along the southern coast of the Savaterem Desert. The plants are rare and grow very slowly. Their seeds form on the outside of the skin, but only 1 in 100 are fertile. They are extremely hard and resistant to damage.
The Taureg people, named after the plant, use these seeds as currency.
- Value of infertile seed: 1/10th denar.
- Value of fertile seed: 10 denar.
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