Re: silver worth

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

I'm working on a monetary system right now for the 3 major cities
in Geleia(Kieron's Watch, Liston, and Southham), plus the Orc Tribes.
Each produces a copper coin and a silver coin.  Southham also
produces a gold coin.  Liston produces a gold coin, as well as a
tradebar esque coin made of platinum and teresium(its value is
astronomical, so in cases wehre the transactions are truely
staggering in lesser coins, these are used).  Kieron's Watch will
produce a gold coin as well a steel one.

The value of the coins isn't dependant on the value of the metal either,
and the relative value of each fluctuates a bit(i've included
common exchange rates).  And the Karefelon Silver Piece is of lesser
value, since it has no political backing, its just worth the metal
which fluctuates as well.

I'll mail what I come up with to the GM list as soon as I'm done for
folks to peruse, and put it on my web page.

Wright

> I have always run a Karfelon silver as three dollars, and as the size of a
> quarter.  A gold as the size of a dime.  There could be reasons on the
> tremendous descrepency between this value and modern silver value, like
> the tremendous proliferation of silver on Jaern.  When hard currency was
> used on earth, it was worth a hell of a lot more.  (a "pound"  was
> originally a pound of silver)  
> 
> Any comments?  Feasibility of pure currency?  Where are these mines?
> 
> Jevan F.
> 
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> On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 rob@bchm1.aclcb.purdue.edu wrote:
> 
> > from what i remeber a silver was supposed to be worth about 3-5 dollars
> > comparatively is this still true?
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> > Subvert the Dominant Paradigm
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