Currency
Six coins from brass up to the prince, and every one of them answers to a nickname
Six units of coin are struck across Erôth, and only the middle of the range does most of the work. Copper and silver buy the day: bread, passage, a bed, a blade mended. Brass runs beneath them for the smallest reckonings, and the three above silver are seen seldom enough that producing one is itself a statement.
Every unit carries a nickname, and the nickname is what gets said. A man asks the price in pennies and shines, not in copper and silver, and he is understood. The struck name is what a clerk writes down.
The fiddah is the interesting one. It sits between silver and gold at five silver, which is an awkward enough denomination that carrying one is a choice rather than change from something larger. It is hard to pass without being noticed, and that is precisely why it gets used when being noticed is the point: a moonie crossing a table is a different sentence from five shines crossing it, and both parties know which sentence was spoken.
The prince takes its name from the princes of Peredhel.
The Units
| Unit | Abbr | Nickname |
|---|---|---|
| Princes | PP | Sovereigns |
| Gold | GP | Crowns |
| Fiddah | FP | Moonies |
| Silver | SP | Shines |
| Copper | CP | Pennies |
| Brass | BP | Slivers |
Conversion Rates
- 1 prince = 10 gold
- 1 gold = 2 fiddah = 10 silver = 100 copper = 500 brass
Where the Coin Does Not Travel
Galderia does not deal in fiddah, and neither, in the main, does Idir. Both run predominantly on Peren coin, which is a statement about where their trade actually comes from rather than about the metal. A traveler carrying moonies east finds them worth explaining before they are worth spending.