Currency of Ashtree

Coins, Ancient and New

The currencies of previous civilizations can be found in plenty of ruins around the kingdom, especially in the borderlands and wilderness. Now, most currency that is used are Crescent Silvers (silver pieces, silvers, or just Crescents, silver and octagonal with a crescent moon on them) and Royal Gold (circular gold coins with a hole in the middle, commonly called gold pieces, gold, or Royals). 10 Lions are worth a Crescent, 10 Crescents are worth a Royal. They are effectively copper, silver, and gold pieces in regular D&D, just named. Very rarely, old coinage recovered from ruins or passed down as heirlooms (known as "copper pieces" universally) is used in underdeveloped economies where prices are far cheaper, but most of the kingdom's economy has inflated enough to make these old coins useless, meaning they're worth 1/100 of a Royal, or 1/10 of a Crescent. They had many different minting variations and dozens of names, so a single "universal" copper piece value was established.
Other currencies include Dragons, which are octagonal platinum coins worth 10 Royals. These are not used normally, as it may be difficult to find anyone willing to trade them. They were in use a few hundred years ago, however, so they may still be found in barrows and crypts. Electrum, circular coins with a hole in the middle are called Waves, and they can mainly be found in Snow Elf ruins and certain dwarven strongholds long abandoned. They're worth half a Royal, or 5 Crescents. These were used a very long time ago, when electrum was easier to find and mine in nature. They are usually painted a shade of cobalt blue, but it has usually worn off after a few hundred years. Changing ancient coins such as this into regular currency usually has exchange fees attached.

10 cp/Lions = 1 sp/Crescent;
10 sp/Crescents = 1 gp/Royal;
5 sp/Crescents = 1 ep/Wave;
10 gp/Royal = 1 pp/Dragon

Item type

Currency & Deeds

Owning Organization

Kingdom of Ashtree

Weight

Usually, no matter the type of coin, 100 coins equals about a pound in weight.

Raw materials & Components

Usually, they are made of the exact material as they are called. Waves are usually still made from the electrum alloy, but they were painted over by lead paint. It does last a long time, but it has still worn out.