20 shillings in a sovereign 12 pennies in a shilling 240 pennies in a sovereign
a farthing is 1/4 of a penny a halfpenny is 1/2 of a penny 3 farthings are 3/4 of a penny
a half-groat is 2 pennies a threepenny bit made of silver is 3 pennies a groat is 4 pennies a sixpence or tanner is 6 pennies
So a groat, a sixpence and a half groat equal to a shilling
a florin or two shilling piece is two shillings a half-crown is 2 shillings and 6 pennies (or half a shilling) a crown is 5 shillings ten shillings is half a sovereign a half-guinea is 10 shillings and 6 pennies
a guinea is a sovereign and a shilling
There what's so hard to understand?
Liam Myers
>1 Green Groat=12.37 bronze shillings >1 Bronze Shilling is equal to 1/5th of a sixpenny, or 6/9th of a Wet Bobhog >A sixpenny is 3/4th of a Dry Bobhog, or 3.2 of a gold shilling >A Dry Bobhog is 3.83 Young Tanners, or 1/8th of a Royal Groat >1 Young Tanner is a 2/7th of a Eightpence, or 1 7th Rude >A halfpenny is worth 2 eightpences
Ayden Nguyen
>Not running Cyberpunk or Sci fi >Not having neoshekels as the universal currency
Ayden Watson
What if piece is actually a unit of mass? And a single gold coin might weight dozens of pieces while a copper coin might actually be a gold piece, if number stamped on it says so.
Hunter Phillips
>not having an economy that runs on Beanie Babies
Liam Morgan
This is your fault, Europe.
You didn't stop Brits fast enough.
Ian Mitchell
>decimalisation is good It has never been good, metric is rubbish.
Michael White
Well, most coins were.
Jackson Cook
It beats the autism we had till fucking 1970, I'm glad I never had to put up with the same shit my parents did t. actual Brit
David Wright
Generic Fantasy setting wealth is porcelain coins.
Science-Fiction setting uses 'discs' of oxygen, unrealistically pressed gas to form a solid that can sustain a person's spacesuit for an hour.
Modern fantasy setting is just dollars, but they look like silly monopoly money that glow in the dark because the city it takes place is always night time and dark.
>r8 my currencies
Benjamin Green
>Not running a blowjob-based economy faggot
David Sullivan
>Modern fantasy setting is just dollars, but they look like silly monopoly money that glow in the dark because the city it takes place is always night time and dark. I don't understand the the logic but I like it.
Nathaniel Collins
I would play the hell out of a game set in the Post-Cyberpocalypse
Luis Brooks
>the cute cashier at the grocery store gives you your total
Lucas Garcia
No wonder nips rather go with 1 yen = 1 copper 100 yen = 1 silver 10000 yen = 1 gold
system. More clarity and much better.
Aiden Foster
I actually prefer a silver based currency, with gold value fluctuating according to market demands.
Rich people would be the ones using golden coins. Usually a soldier's wage would be measured in silver. Most of everything would use silver.
Then, copper coins are set at 96 copper coins per 1 silver coin. 96 is a good number that is close enough to 100 but is divisible by many numbers, which allows for ease of use during daily activities.
Christopher Brooks
>t. americuck
Joseph Sanders
The money is each a vibrant color and is printed to glow in the dark so that they're easier to find if you drop them.
The city is always night outside, it's hard to find things you drop on the ground.
Andrew Johnson
Makes sense. Consider it stolen
Jace Morgan
Being serious. What is a halfpenny?
Ian Jackson
Half a penny
Ayden Cruz
Is that real? Are you fucking with me?
Logan Campbell
In my day a penny could buy you a Beano, a Dandy, a bag of sweets, a poke of chips, and bottle of lemonade with change left over.
Anthony Davis
And with the change, you could buy an egg cream.
William Harris
>20 shillings in a sovereign >12 pennies in a shilling >240 pennies in a sovereign But I do use this system.
The rest of the extraneous coinage is just fluff.
Jordan Reed
Have you heard of a farthing?
Elijah Campbell
>tfw you use to be able to buy a pound of candy for a nickel, but these days you're lucky if you're not spending five dollars.
Brody Sullivan
How much would (whatever profession you are) make daily back then?
Cooper Baker
About three shillings a day if you were a labourer. A professional like a clerk would get 200 pounds a year. Bread would cost 1.50 pennies or so.
Parker Sullivan
So you could buy 24 loaves of bread with your day's wages. Bread costs about $2 here and my last labour job came to around $13 an hour in my pocket/bank. I'd typically only work 8 hours a day, resulting in $104 a day. Or 52 loaves of bread. Even if it were $3 I could buy 34.6 loaves of bread. So, though the numbers be larger, the inaugural worth is greater too. Of course, I live in Canada and am native. I know there's plenty of people doing harder jobs than I making rather less. My last job was also on the low end of the pay scale, however.
Juan Garcia
>$13 an hour Wages were far lower back then
Grayson Nguyen
But the value of the money was completely different. The price of things fluctuates like crazy depending on supply, demand, paperwork, and greed.
Blake Parker
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Brandon Edwards
You're absolute pleb. Using coins instead of gemstones with the value dependant on type, weight and karats, with proper mathematical formulas for counting value of each little stone, modified by the part of the world one's in and religious/spiritual/magical significance of particular stone for local community as well as demand for particular rituals (sell your aquamarines during the drough) and current supply in the market.
