Coinage Postfest: Arcane Trade Bars

Arcane Platinum Trade Bars

Orgin of the Mint:
        The Arcane.

Description of the coins:
        Each of these bars is a 3" x1.3" x1.3" rectangle stamped with
the symbol of a three petaled flower. They are usually worth 1,000 gp
each in Spelljammer aware ports.

Frequency of Occurence in Space:
        Arcane Trade Bars are a fairly common in space.

Notes:
        Because they offer a portable mode of wealth, many
adventurers who find large hoards go to an Arcane and have their
wealth changed into these bars (the arcane charge a 5% fee,  which is
a hefty income considering the large amounts involved.  On Bral they
can also be purchased from the Royal Exchequer and they are usually
used as the mode of payment when large sums are exchanged and a paper
"credit" exchange is unwise or impractical.
         Shopkeepers and most common goods merchants can't accept
them, of course, as they are too large to easily make change, and so
the Arcane and other moneychangers make a nice profit changing such
bars down to smaller currency as well.


--
"...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?!"
"As he has ever judged," said Aragorn "Good and evil have not changed
since yesteryear..."
J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers_

Paul Westermeyer,  westermeyer@????????.net