Celestial Coinage

Celestial light, crystalised and monetised

Made from refined starlight, they were the currency of all the great empires on Calradia and are named after their source of light and general metallic appearance. Highly magical in nature, and can be consumed to infuse magic into items and be used in place of basic spell components. The technology to properly forge them has been mostly lost with the collapse of the [Old Empire].

• Copper Sun: made from the harsh burning light of the sun
• Silver Moon: the gentle light of the moon
• Gold Star: the faint trickling light of stars
• Platinum Supernova: created by the rare, brilliant flashes of supernova

They continue to see widespread use in the modern era as currency due to their limited nature and and general abundance, inability to create forgeries, and practical magic application.

Design

Copper Sun

These coins are small squares with small tapered corners, both faces having a slight concave curve; an eight pointed sun motif is embossed on both sides with a smooth hole passing through the centre, often utilised to string multiples of Suns together.

Silver Moon

Made into simple silver discs, Moons have a crescent moon embossed on one side, with a hole passing through close to the edge of the coin and touches both tips of the moon motif. The opposite face are usually stamped with their minting date, and typically bears an embossed face of someone important to the minter, or landscapes and architecture of the time.

Gold Star

Often the coins with the most thought put into the design, they are relatively small, thick discs with the face of leaders and typically the date it was minted embossed on one face. The other face is always a mirror image of the constellation it was collected from or, in rare cases, a single centred star motif.

Platinum Supernova

The explosive nature of the event that leads to Platinum coins leaves them thin and covered in otherworldly designs. They appear almost hoop-like, thin yet solid discs with a large hole usually in the centre, the patterns embossed on the fine amount of crystal often appear to depict other planes and powerful planar beings in dilating patterns that twist and radiate outwards in detail that seems to have endless layers regardless of how close it is inspected.

Type

Metamaterial