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wellpresseddaisy) wrote2023-02-21 10:44 pm
wellpresseddaisy) wrote2023-02-21 10:44 pm
A Working Monetary System
Formatted in tables for ease of use. :)
Colloquially, large amounts of money also go by nautical names:
Sickles
Sickles use harvest-related iconography, hence their name. The 1S coin has an image of a sickle on it.
Knuts
Knuts are the most commonly used currency. Their iconography is a bit more random.
Like everything else world-building-wise in HP, the monetary system is a mess. I know it's a takeoff on the £. s. d. pre-decimalization system, but it's kind of useless. What monetary system only has 3 coins?
So, I propose this:
Most of what average people buy is priced in Sickles and Knuts. We're ignoring canon here. Diagon Alley, as a shopping arcade catering to the newly arrived, tends to have higher prices and to only price things in whole coins.
Galleons
The main 1G coin has an image of a galleon on it. All of the Galleon-based coins use images of ships.
| Denomination | Name |
|---|---|
| 1/2G | Dinghy |
| 1G 3S | Brig |
| 2G | Billet |
| 5G | Skiff |
| 10G | Sloop |
Colloquially, large amounts of money also go by nautical names:
| Denomination | Name |
|---|---|
| 50G | Schooner |
| 100G | Smack |
| 500G | Caravel |
| 1,000G | Clipper |
| 5,000G | Cog |
| 25,000G | Flotilla |
| 50,000G | Fleet |
| 1000,000G | Armada |
Sickles
Sickles use harvest-related iconography, hence their name. The 1S coin has an image of a sickle on it.
| Denomination | Name |
|---|---|
| 1/2S | Blade |
| 2S | Tick or Tickle (from 2 Sickles) |
| 5S | Caravel |
| 15S | Clipper |
Knuts
Knuts are the most commonly used currency. Their iconography is a bit more random.
| Denomination | Name |
|---|---|
| 1/8K | Stacker |
| 1/4K | Quacker it has a duck on it |
| 1/2K | Dilly |
| 2K | Dubs |
| 6K | Topper it has a hat on it |
| 10K | Cauldron or Brew has a cauldron on it |