The vast majority of currency systems in Wythe are based on metals. The use of metal coins as currency in Wythe is an ancient practice, dating back to the great Dwarven kingdoms and their octagonal coins of gold and silver. In Mannish civilizations, the first recorded use of metal coins can be dated to the seafaring societies of what is now
Southwythe. It is possible that these merchant cities adopted the practice from hitherto unknown societies across the southern ocean, similar to the Arnt Batini adoption of slavery from the Lagonic people.
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Currency of Arnt Batin
Currency of the Autumnvale
Trymessa (Trihmessa): Gold (3 Sceattas)
Sceattas (scattus): Silver (6 Stycce)
Stycce (stikeh): Copper
24 eels= 4 Stycce
Currency of Bergeaux
Currency of Santa Alessa
Since the earliest days of the Church, the people of
Santa Alessa have used the gold battin (Alessan:
battirino d'oro), minted by the Venturi Bank in
Batticenza, as their primary form of currency.
Currency of Sevnónicha
Sevnónicha has resumed minting its own traditional currency since 401 A.U., when the Bank of Novaček was re-established under
Sevnóni control.
The coins, in order of increasing value, are the iron pehl, the nickel revent, the gold zlot, and the silver kolia.
The conversion system is decimal (adopted from the Wythian system): ten pehls make a revent, ten revents make a zlot, and ten zloty make a kolia.
Wythian coin, while still generally accepted in the southern cities, is severely devalued: one gold piece is worth approximately 1/20 of one kolia, or five revents.
One Wythian gold piece is approximately the same weight as one gold zlot.
Currency of Sijmen Sur
Research pre-slavic finnish currency
Currency of Sinopa
The currency of
Sinopa is one of the few systems in Wythe not originally based in metals. Instead, Pre-Imperial
Sinopans used beads carved from the shells of Flail Snails (Sinopan:
Yotahal) as legal tender. These beads were strung together for convienence, with the number of beads on a string corresponding to said string's value. These strings could then be woven together into intricately-designed mats of extraordinary value.
Interestingly, due to the antimagical properties of Yotahal shells, (knowledge unknown to
Men prior to its discovery by Imperial scholars) handling large amounts of beads in the home had a good chance of de-animating undead servants or resurrected family members. This gave rise to the taboo that merchants and moneylenders were cursed, and thus unfit to raise families or practice necromancy. The practice of barring tradesmen from marrying remained in place until the capitulation of
Sinopa to the
Wythian Empire in 71 AU, and to this day merchants are looked upon with disdain in the far reaches of the country.
The arrival of the Wythians, and their standardized currency, largely spelled the end for bead strings as legal tender in Sinopa. However, individual beads are still accepted as a substitution for a Copper Piece in and around
Tenyokia.
Currency of Teoti-Itza
cocoa beans (or more climate-appropriate substitute)
woven cotton
copper axe-coins (might be too modern)
Currency of Ulnost
Currency of Westwythe
Among the known currency systems, the most prominent by far is Westwythian currency.
