Coin press

Lone Wolf · Postby **Lone Wolf** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:37 am

I was thinking about a coin press. What if a town that has established itself could build a coin press. The coins would be made of gold, and silver. This would make it valuble. The coins from the press could have a name pressed on it, like the name of the town, This would make the coin valuble and act as a type of currency used in the town. Since it is made of gold it would be valuble in other towns that wish to except the money.

Does anyone else have any ideas how this could be improved upon?

creepyguyinblack · Postby **creepyguyinblack** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:01 am

Except gold doesn't really have much value in cantr.

new.vogue.nightmare · Postby **new.vogue.nightmare** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:21 am

There's another thread about this too, read that for some background.

Meh · Postby **Meh** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:25 pm

My belief is that now is that iron, steel, and perhaps even cotton and silk cloth could be used as currency in some places.

boomhaeur · Postby **boomhaeur** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:33 pm

While I think it would be a great idea at some point, I think right now it would kill what is currently just an emerging trading and bartering system in the game. While some have done it all along I think with Iron becoming more scarce etc. we'll start to see people move away from the "do it all myself" and more towards the emergence of skilled labourers and entreprenuers etc.

A coin system right now would jump the commerce development forward unnaturally a little too much I think.

Postby **KVZ** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:05 am

gold had never had so much practical value.. maybe in recent times... it was used to make currency because it was rare and controled by nobelity.., it is known that coins can be faked but beffore someone will do that he/she need to have orginal coint (at least he/she must see it) and own gold ore and press... I think that gold production could be complcated like iron... Also there could be something like unique patttern on coins that could be faked but with someone effort, and someone could compare and see that it is faked

nitefyre · Postby **nitefyre** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:09 am

I don't like it either. When in Quillanoi, my char found it stupid that the Qui would be anything at all when all it is a number on someone's paper. Bartering and Trading and Donating is what my chars believe in, material value.

Postby **KVZ** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:22 am

me too... but look at real world, everywhere you look, you will see money, and they have symbolical value only

berserk9779 · Postby **berserk9779** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:00 am

I do not like the idea of money being introduced in cantr, als oif it will be really useful for travel.
I have a char going arounf with 7 kg of iron and all her gear. a real slug...
making coins a region related question. would cancel also this advantage making it next to useless. lets leave bartening as it is

David · Postby **David** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:03 am

That's was why currency was developed originally... or one of the main reasons... acted as a promisory note... to reduce travel time... that is the whole idea. Alenz Company Scrip would be useful too.

Camino · Postby **Camino** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:25 pm

Just because it might be around doesn't mean you'd have to accept that money, you're acting like it would be forced upon you. As something like this would be a case of you want to use then do so but its going to rely on various companies and traders deciding that some coin is acceptable.

rklenseth · Postby **rklenseth** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:53 am

NiTeFyRe wrote:I don't like it either. When in Quillanoi, my char found it stupid that the Qui would be anything at all when all it is a number on someone's paper. Bartering and Trading and Donating is what my chars believe in, material value.

But should all your characters believe that?

Nick · Postby **Nick** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 5:59 am

Characters like that piss me off...
They should be formed by the culture they live in, and believe in that culture.
For instance, if you were raised in a certain religion, you would be religious...
If you were born in the Empire, and lived for 20 years, you wouldnt be fighting them.

Meh · Postby **Meh** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:18 am

IRL gold coins were a statement of purity of the metal within. That is it. No economic group regulating or controlling gold. Gold had a value. The coins were only worth their weight in gold. If conterfiets were made in less than gold.

It was not until the Nixon era that the gold standard was departed from.

There is iron, steel, the cloths, and even rope that can be used as currency now. Why didn't real life use cloth and rope as curency? Because you couldn't cut it up into 300 different 1 gram pieces and put it together again like in Cantr.

Just my opinion which if you look back has changed.

That said medallions with inscriptions would be nice.

David · Postby **David** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:36 am

American cash money is a kind of fabric err. has a lot of fabric in it. (has nothing to do with its value of course.)

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