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Kragen2179
Acolyte
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 Posted - 25 Feb 2023 : 19:28:52
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Ho there wanderers. On my journey to catalogue the known coins of the Realms, I have come across the following information, but as yet have no listed "official source" be it Rulebook, module or novel etc.
Can anyone shed any light on the following coins and tell me which source(2) would reference/describe them?
From what I can find so far, I believe that the entries below for Baldur's Gate, Eltural, Hillsfar, Iriaebor, and Mirabar are most likely homebrew.
Additionally, I have physical descriptions for the coins of the Windrise Ports, but cannot remember which sourcebook I found them in, Can anyone help with that?
Baldur's Gate : GP - Double Eagle, SP - Sword, CP - Head
Eltural: GP - Corner, SP - Moon, CP - Square
Hillsfar: GP - Crown, EP - Half-Crown, SP - Shill, CP - Weight
Iriaebor: GP - Scroll, SP - Torch, CP - Cord
Mirabar: GP - Orb, SP - Dena, CP - Tanner
Moonshae Isles: PP - Coat of Arms, GP - Crown, EP - Half-Crown, SP - Shilling, CP - Penny
Mulmaster: GP - Ducat, SP - Cog, CP - Knarr
Procampur: GP - Pyron, SP - Drachma, CP - Sestus
Raven's Bluff: GP - Ducat, SP - Hyper, CP - Denari
Thay: PP - Regal, GP - Nomisma, SP - Drama, CP - Fen, 1/2CP - Shek
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Karthak
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TBeholder
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Posted - 25 Feb 2023 : 23:51:36
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quote:
Originally posted by Kragen2179
I have come across the following information, but as yet have no listed "official source" be it Rulebook, module or novel etc.
Can anyone shed any light on the following coins and tell me which source(2) would reference/describe them?
From what I can find so far, I believe that the entries below for Baldur's Gate, Eltural, Hillsfar, Iriaebor, and Mirabar are most likely homebrew.
Almost certainly. As well as the rest of them.
The list of known coins and sources on FR wikia may be incomplete, but it's impressively long: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Currency
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Additionally, I have physical descriptions for the coins of the Windrise Ports, but cannot remember which sourcebook I found them in, Can anyone help with that?
Ed Greenwood's Twitter, maybe? https://web.archive.org/web/20210801224629/twitter%2Ecom/TheEdVerse/status/1421965481141997574 |
People never wonder How the world goes round -Helloween
And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense -R.W.Wood
It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. -Ed Whitchurch |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 26 Feb 2023 : 02:06:14
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| 2e Forgotten Realms Adventures describes and discusses many common coinages (in the Heartlands), including some of the above. |
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TBeholder
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Posted - 26 Feb 2023 : 07:39:57
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Originally posted by Ayrik
2e Forgotten Realms Adventures describes and discusses many common coinages (in the Heartlands), including some of the above.
Which some? |
People never wonder How the world goes round -Helloween
And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense -R.W.Wood
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3240 Posts |
Posted - 26 Feb 2023 : 15:02:34
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Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (Revised) (2nd edition, 1993, TSR01085)
Forgotten Realms Adventures (1990, TSR02106)
Location Copper Silver Electrum Gold Platinum
Cormyr Copper Thumbs Silver Falcons Blue eyes Golden Lions Tricrowns
(round)
Amn Fandars Tarans Centaurs Dantars Roldons
Fanders Decimes Danters Pearls
Calimport Unarches Decarches Centarches Bicentas Kilarches
Radas Espedrille Tazos
Niftens Zonths
Spanners
Memnon Red Worm
Waterdeep Copper Shards Moons Dragons Suns
Sembia Steelpense Hawks Blue eyes pentagon none
(square iron) (triangular) (diamond-shaped)
Special coins
Waterdeep:
Toal - Square, flat brass coin with a hole in its center, worth 2 gp/1 ep within Waterdeep, worthless outside.
Harbor Moon - Platinum and electrum piece in the shape of a moon crescent worth 50 gp within Waterdeep, 2 gp outside
Silverymoon:
Moon - Electrum coin worth 2ep in Silvermoon, but 1 ep elsewhere
Tethyr:
Gulders, Moelans, Myrats, Zoths - Gold coins, worth less than normal during upheavals in Tethyr
Bela - Paper money from Kara-Tur and the Hordelands
Mirabar Trade Bar - Black iron bars worth 10gp in Mirabar, 5gp elsewhere
Merchant's Trade Bar - Silver bars worth 10gp, 20gp, or 50gp
Sembian Trade Bar - Silver ingots worth 5gp, 10gp, 25gp, or 50gp
Lantan Trade Bar - Bar of worked steel worth 20gp each
Shou Lung Trade Bar - Slender bar of silver worth 40gp each
Tharsult Statues - Ivory, jade and serpentine statues used as coinage in Tharsult; worth 15gp there, 5 gp elsewhere
Shaar Rings - Slice and bored ivory worth 3gp each
Gond Bells - Ornamental stones loosely enclosed in brass, worth 20gp to church of Gond, 10gp everyone else |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
Ashe's Character Sheet
Alphabetized Index of Realms NPCs |
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Kragen2179
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 26 Feb 2023 : 21:56:41
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Thanks for the feedback so far. Especially the twitter link.
Unfortunately the places I listed are not in the sources you have listed.
As I said I suspect that the a number are homebrew, however Mulmaster, Moonshae, Procampur, Raven's Bluff, and Thay I think should be mentioned somewhere if anyone knows |
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Ashe Ravenheart
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Kragen2179
Acolyte
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Posted - 27 Feb 2023 : 16:08:04
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quote:
Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
I was going to compile a list of all the sources that detail the coinage in the Realms, then I remembered somebody already did.
Forgotten Realms Currency
If it's not listed there, there's a good chance it's not from official material.
With greatest respect, that list is by no means complete. Through my own research I have confirmed from published sources/Ed's Twitter currencies and/or descriptions for...
Calaunt, Candlekeep, Cormanthyr (including Myth Drannor), Dambrath, Halruaa, Impiltur, Mulhorand, Netheril, Neverwinter, Ulgarth, Unther and Zakhara (none of which are listed in that wiki, as well as much more detail than that wiki provides for the coins that are named.
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Kragen2179
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 27 Feb 2023 : 18:00:42
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this is my list of sources so far (yes this includes Non-FR, also I am aware that the last 3 web links are non-canon
[1*] Oriental Adventures. (1985, TSR, Inc), Gary Gygax, et al, ISBN 0-8803-8099-3. p37-38
[2*] Cyclopedia of the Realms. (1987, TSR, Inc), Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 0-88038-472-7. p9-10
[3*] Waterdeep and the North. (1987, TSR, Inc), Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 0-88038-490-5. p29-30
[4*] Empires of the Sands. (1988, TSR, Inc), Scott Haring, et al, ISBN 0-88038-539-1. p7,25,52-53.
[5*] The Savage Frontier. (1988, TSR, Inc) Jenell Jaquays, et al, ISBN 0-88038-593-6. p7
[6*] The Bloodstone Lands (1989, TSR, Inc), R. A. Salvatore et al, ISBN 0-88038-77 1-8. p22-23
[7*] Forgotten Realms Adventures (1990, TSR, Inc) Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 0-88038-828-5. p76,97,129-142
[8*] Old Empires, (1990, TSR, Inc), Scott Bennie, et al. ISBN 0-88038-821-8. p19, 56
[9*] Anauroch, (1991, TSR, Inc, Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 1-56076-126-1. p43
[10*] Maztica Campaign Set. (1991, TSR, Inc), Douglas Niles, et al, ISBN 1-56076-084-2. p.66-67.
[11*] Spelljammer: Rock of Bral. (1992, TSR, Inc) L. Richard Baker III, et al, ISBN 1-56076-345-0. p8
[12*] The Ruins of Myth Drannor: Myth Drannor Adventures, (1993, TSR, Inc) Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 1-56076-569-0. p33
[13*] Al-Qadim, City of Delights. (1993, TSR, Inc), Tom Prussa, et al, ISBN. 1-56076-589-5. p13
[14*] The Shining South. (1993, TSR, Inc) Tom Prussa, et al, ISBN1-56076-595-X. p8,29,46,77,89
[15*] A Grand Tour of the Realms. (1993, TSR, Inc), Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 1-56076-605-0. p26-27, 116-117.
[16*] Spelljammer - The Astromundi Cluster: Celestial Almanac, (1993, TSR, Inc), Sam wit, et al, ISBN 1-56076-632-8. p13
[17*] Who's Who in Waterdeep, Book II of the City ofsplendors, (1994, TSR, Inc), Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 1-56076-368-1. p31-32
[18*] Cormyr, (1994, TSR, Inc), Eric Haddock, et al. ISBN 1-56076-818-5. p11
[19*] Netheril: Empire of Magic, (1995, TSR, Inc) Slade, et al, ISBN 0-7869-0637-2. p97, 103
[20*] Lands of Intrigue, Book 1, (1997, TSR, Inc) Steven E. Schend, et al, ISBN 0-7869-0697-9. p 14-15.
[21*] Lands of Intrigue, Book 2, (1997, TSR, Inc), Steven E. Schend, et al, ISBN 0-7869-0697-9. p 13
[22*] Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves, (1998, TSR, Inc), Steven E Schend, et al ISBN 0-7869-0761-4. p63
[23*] The City of Ravens Bluff, (1998, TSR, Inc), Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 0-7869-1195-6. p66,79
[24*] Sea of Fallen Stars, (1999, TSR, Inc), Steven E. Schend, et al ISBN 0-7869-1393-2. p54-55
[25*] Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, (2001, Wizrds of the Coast, Inc), Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-1836-2. p91
[26*] Ravenloft Core Rulebook, (2001, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Andrew Cermak, et al, ISBN 1-58846-075-4. p114-173
[27*] Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I, (2002, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), John W. Mangrum, et al, ISBN 1-58846-080-0. p31, 57
[28*] Dragonlance Campaign Setting, (2003, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Margaret Weis, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-3086-9
[29*] Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II, (2003, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), John W. Mangrum, et al, ISBN 1-58846-830-5. p37-38, 76,77 102
[30*] Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume III, (2003, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), John W. Mangrum, et al, ISBN 1-58846-086-X. p28, 100
[31*] Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume IV, (2003, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), James Lowder, et al, ISBN 1-58846-087-8. p31-32, 56, 101, 124
[32*] Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V, (2004, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Andrew Cermak, et al, ISBN 1-58846-964-6. p36
[33*] Dragon Magazine #346 (2006, Paizo Publishing, LLC), George Krashos. p59
[34*] Dungeon Master’s Guide, (2008, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Reb Heinsoo, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-4880-2. P124
[35*] Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, (2008, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Bruce R. Cordell, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3. p45
[36*] Dungeon Magazine #177 (2010, Wizards of the Coast, Inc) Brian R. James, et al. p78
[37*] Elminster’s Forgotten Realms, (2012, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Ed Greenwood, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6034-7. p118-121
[38*] Player’s Handbook, (2014, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Mike Mearls, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6560-1. p143
[39*] Dungeon Master’s Guide, (2014, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Mike Mearls, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6562-5. p19-20
[40*] Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, (2015, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Steve Kenson, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6580-9, p13.
[41*] Volo’s Waterdeep Enrichdom, (2018, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Christopher Perkins, et al, p6-7
[42*] Waterdep: Dragon Heist, (2018, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Christopher Perkins, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6625-7. p168-169
[43*] Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, (2019, Wizards of the Coast, Inc) Adam Lee, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6687-5, p130, 225.
[44*] Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron, (2018, Keith Baker, Wizards of the Coast, Inc, DMs Guild), Keith Baker et al. p39
[45*] Eberron: Rising from the Last War, (2018, Wizards of the Coast, Inc) Jeremy Crawford, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6692-9. p7
[46*] Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica, (2018, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), James Wyatt, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6659-2. p9
[47*] Mythic Odysseys of Theros, (2020, Wizards of the Coast, Inc) F. Wesley Schneider, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6701-8. p85
[48*] Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen, (2022, Wizards of the Coast, Inc) F. Wesley Schneider, et al, ISBN 978-0-7869-6828-2. p10
https://www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/sse/so_saith_ed.htm
[=1] So saith Ed, 23/March/2004
[=2] So saith Ed, 11/June/2004
[=3] So saith Ed, 01/May/2005
[1!] George Krashos, http://candlekeep.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1901&whichpage=15 29 March 2004
[2!] Wooly Rupert obo Ed Greenwood, http://candlekeep.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=22017&SearchTerms=coin 19/December/2017
[3!] Steven Schend, http://candlekeep.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8080&SearchTerms=coin 30/January/2022
Ed Greenwood’s Twitter
[1+] @TheEdVerse 03/September/2019
[2+] @TheEdVerse 01/August/2021
[3+] @TheEdVerse 12/June/2021
https://www.mimir.net/barmy/coins.html
[#1] Jon Winter, 1996/2000
[?1] https://www.angelfire.com/on/ebonwolf/coinage.html
[?2] https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/rJZB2UZwLE
[@1] The Halls of Stormweather, (2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc) Philip Athans, et al. ISBN 978-07869-1560-6. p4,5,77,98,245,270
[@2} Shadow's Witness, (2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Paul S Kemp, et al, ISBN 978-07869-4259-6. p83,126
[@3] The Shattered Mask, (2001, Wizards of the Coast, Inc) Richard Lee Byers, et al, ISBN 978-07869-1862-1. p24,28,32
[@4] Black Wolf, (2001, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Dave Gross, et al, ISBN 978-07869-4283-1. p82,149
[@5] Heirs of Prophecy, (2002, Wizards of the Coast, Inc), Lisa Smedman, et al, ISBN 978-07869-2737-1. p16
[@6] Alabaster Staff, (2003, Wizards of the Coast, Inc) Edward Bolme, et al, ISBN 978-07869-2962-7. p13,14,15,88,89
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Asharak
Learned Scribe
France
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Posted - 27 Feb 2023 : 21:15:59
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quote:
Originally posted by Kragen2179
this is my list of sources so far (yes this includes Non-FR, also I am aware that the last 3 web links are non-canon
Thank you very much for this list of references, it will be very useful to me. |
"Soyez réalistes : demandez l'impossible"
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Kragen2179
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 27 Feb 2023 : 21:39:35
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I have discovered that the author of the homebrewery article goes by WormSlayer.
Would anyone recognise that name and be able to put me in touch? |
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 27 Feb 2023 : 22:34:25
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quote:
Originally posted by Kragen2179
Calaunt, Candlekeep, Cormanthyr (including Myth Drannor), Dambrath, Halruaa, Impiltur, Mulhorand, Netheril, Neverwinter, Ulgarth, Unther and Zakhara (none of which are listed in that wiki, as well as much more detail than that wiki provides for the coins that are named.
Impiltur in Dragon #346, yes.
There's a lot, some bits can be almost anywhere. For example, Land of Intrigue updates on Tethyr and Amn are listed, but then there's this:
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City of Ravens Bluff
The Regent of the Exchequer has several major responsibilities. He supervises the city mint and regulates the amount of precious metal in
each coin (gold, silver, copper, and platinum), fights counterfeiting and coin clipping, collects taxes, licenses banks and moneylenders, and sees to
the safety of civic strongrooms and the treasury. [...]
Recently The Vulture has become concerned over the Tempest Rose Merchant House's coinage of their own money - especially since their
coins (called "roses") are proving more popular than the coin of the realm (called "ravens" from the namesake bird which appears on its front; the
back depicts a merchant ship). The chief reason for this is that their gold is alloyed with copper to make a harder metal that resists wear (and shaving)
better than the almost-pure gold of the "ravens." The Regent [...] is pondering his options: to outlaw the private coinage,
change the composition of the official coins, or simply require all official business to be conducted in "ravens."
- p. 66
The Rose thus functions primarily as a bank and has come to be so trusted that it now even mints its own money: gold pieces bearing a
simple but elegant rose design on one side and Waukeen's profile in bas-relief on the other.
- p.79
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People never wonder How the world goes round -Helloween
And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense -R.W.Wood
It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. -Ed Whitchurch |
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Kragen2179
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 28 Feb 2023 : 01:43:42
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| Awesome find TBeholder. Thank you this is exactly the sort of reply I was hoping for. |
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TBeholder
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Posted - 28 Feb 2023 : 04:06:12
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Also, note that while The Tempest Rose is an example of a Merchant House minting coin...
quote:
City of Ravens Bluff
The Tempest Rose Merchant House: The largest, wealthiest, and best-connected of all the merchant houses is the Tempest Rose [...] Officially run by its Chamberlain, the strikingly tall and urbane olive merchant Bendro Mundigrar, it's an open secret in the Bluff that the Rose is owned by Lady Lauren DeVillars and managed by her as exactingly as if its employees were her domestic staff (as indeed some of them are). [...]
In addition to its banking concerns, the Tempest Rose also invests in building construction (as Lady Lauren wants the city to replace wartime damage as quickly as possible). It owns several small concerns that make sailcloth, rope, chests, and barrels as well as investing in inventions of all sorts (the smaller and more practical the better). Finally, Lady Lauren uses the Merchant House to indulge one of her hobbies - that of breeding fine riding horses, able to race and jump with equal facility. She knows each of her horses by name and visits their farm whenever her duties allow.
- p.79
So, the Rose is halfway a business, halfway an economical tool shed that nicely complements its owner's influence as the head of local noble clan #1 and an archpriestess of Waukeen. She pretty much treats Ravens Bluff as her personal project.
It's not just random big fish, it's a whale shark.
Likewise, The North has some details on Silvaeren coinage
quote:
The North
Silverymoon mints a crescent-shaped, shining blue coin called an "electrum moon." These are worth 2 electrum pieces in Alustriel's lands and 1 electrum piece elsewhere. The other major currency is a larger, round coin called the "eclipsed moon;" they stamp the shining blue crescent of an electrum moon together with a darker silver wedge to complete a round coin, and it is worth 5 electrum pieces in the city and 2 electrum pieces outside the city.
My heuristics on the Faerunian coin names is: either very transparent heraldry (moon/raven/rose/tricrown), or very opaque dialect (belbolt/fander/sardil/zonth).
Shillings are straight out.  |
People never wonder How the world goes round -Helloween
And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense -R.W.Wood
It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. -Ed Whitchurch |
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Kragen2179
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 28 Feb 2023 : 05:05:41
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Originally posted by TBeholder
Impiltur in Dragon #346, yes.
There's a lot, some bits can be almost anywhere. For example, Land of Intrigue updates on Tethyr and Amn are listed, but then there's this:
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City of Ravens Bluff...
...business to be conducted in "ravens."
- p. 66
The Rose thus functions primarily as a bank and has come to be so trusted that it now even mints its own money: gold pieces bearing a
simple but elegant rose design on one side and Waukeen's profile in bas-relief on the other.
- p.79
Is that AD&D2E Land of Intrigue, Book 1, Tethyr you're quoting from? Because unless I'm mistaken, my copy doesn't mention Ravens Bluff. |
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Karthak
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TBeholder
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Posted - 28 Feb 2023 : 08:01:18
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| Some more in a thread over there (note how Faraer caught the raven, but not the rose next to it, that's going to happen now and then). |
People never wonder How the world goes round -Helloween
And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense -R.W.Wood
It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. -Ed Whitchurch |
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Kragen2179
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 28 Feb 2023 : 14:28:27
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Thanks guys, great link. I'm reaching out to WormSlayer, hopefully they respond.
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Asharak
Learned Scribe
France
268 Posts |
Posted - 01 Mar 2023 : 17:36:34
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I can't find the following reference:
[+3] @TheEdVerse 12/June/2021
Anyone have an idea? |
"Soyez réalistes : demandez l'impossible"
Sorry for my English... it's not my native tongue. |
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Karthak
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Asharak
Learned Scribe
France
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Posted - 01 Mar 2023 : 20:31:51
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quote:
Originally posted by Karthak
I have to assume that it's this as nothing else seemed to relate to coins.
"Unther’s coins were small and copper, or large and gold, and in either case triangular."
https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1403771275252731907
Thanks |
"Soyez réalistes : demandez l'impossible"
Sorry for my English... it's not my native tongue. |
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Kragen2179
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 01 Mar 2023 : 20:39:29
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quote:
Originally posted by Karthak
I have to assume that it's this as nothing else seemed to relate to coins.
"Unther’s coins were small and copper, or large and gold, and in either case triangular."
https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1403771275252731907
You are correct sir...
I have updated my list of sources to include the few novels that I have confirmed coin names from.
If anyone knows of any other novel/sourcebook/module/magazine issue that contains names/descriptions of coins please let me know.
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Asharak
Learned Scribe
France
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Posted - 02 Mar 2023 : 15:34:49
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Unapproachable East:
"Uthmere has the only real economy in the Great Dale. Its lord mints coins that are used throughout the city but rarely beyond.", p120
Shining south (D&D3):
"The hin do not mint their own coins", p146
"The gold dwarves of the Great Rift simply mine their currency,", p167
But they are not named.
Underdark:
"Small and easily assayed, minor magic rings are often used as a form of trade currency in some portions of the Underdark." p71 |
"Soyez réalistes : demandez l'impossible"
Sorry for my English... it's not my native tongue. |
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Asharak
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Posted - 02 Mar 2023 : 20:57:31
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Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (D&D3) :
"Folk of some lands (notably Thay and Halruaa) use the currencies of other realms when trading abroad because their own coins and tokens are feared to be magically cursed or trapped, and so are shunned by others." p91
Thay and Halruaa therefore mint their own coins, although they are neither named nor described except for Halruaa's Skie (pe). |
"Soyez réalistes : demandez l'impossible"
Sorry for my English... it's not my native tongue. |
Edited by - Asharak on 03 Mar 2023 15:24:22 |
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TBeholder
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Posted - 03 Mar 2023 : 12:42:20
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quote:
Originally posted by Kragen2179
Is that AD&D2E Land of Intrigue, Book 1, Tethyr you're quoting from?
It's the next book, named in the quote. I forgot to leave an empty line for the Redditors to parse. 
Then there's Lieko from Ulgarth, but it's in a separate article for some reason. A turf war between the wiki-ngs, or something? https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Lieko
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Originally posted by Karthak
"Unther�s coins were small and copper, or large and gold, and in either case triangular."
https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1403771275252731907
It's a detail from Ed's Original Campaign, however. May or may not be the same as in Published Realms. |
People never wonder How the world goes round -Helloween
And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense -R.W.Wood
It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. -Ed Whitchurch |
Edited by - TBeholder on 03 Mar 2023 12:45:21 |
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Kragen2179
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 03 Mar 2023 : 15:17:00
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Got it. Thanks guys.
And yes I already found the Lieko |
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Looking for sources to confirm/deny realms coinage
