Coinage Nitpickery

[Malignant Naricissism]

I'm overall indifferent to the coins in the game. But one of them in particular annoys me. The golden lion. As far as I'm led to believe, the golden lion is the gold piece in the campaign, yet when I pick up "golden lions" as coinage loot, they work differently, as they are not just gold, and are worth far more than just one gold piece per lion. All the other coins, alright cool, but could we do away with this one type of coins to make things make a bit more sense?

[Manshin]

A Gold Lion could be something like a Harbor Moon in Waterdeep which is worth 50 gp.

You could picture an electrum coin with a golden lion set into the middle.

[Munroe]

I requested to Kalbaern before that the Cormyrian coinage be removed from the coin drops. He opposed this change and his explanation at the time was that the Cormyrian coinage found is actually rare collectible versions of the coins, such as ones with a particular minting date, or maybe the king that's printed on it, or so on.

If they're not removed, I'd personally like to have the Cormyrian coins (copper thumbs, silver falcons, golden lions, and platinum tricrowns) that are dropped in loot renamed to have a prefix of "rare" or "uncommon" in the name so it's clear that they're not being sold at their standard coinage value. So then a Rare Golden Lion might be worth mroe than a standard golden lion (1 gp) but it wouldn't cause confusion because it shares an identical name.

Yes, as far as FRC is concerned, the standard gold piece (worth 1 gp) is a golden lion, and all major transactions in Cormyr are priced in golden lions. Currency exchanges in Cormyr replace foreign coinage with golden lions.

[kalbaern]

Jan 20, 2013 15:36:11 GMT -5 Munroe said:

I requested to Kalbaern before that the Cormyrian coinage be removed from the coin drops. He opposed this change and his explanation at the time was that the Cormyrian coinage found is actually rare collectible versions of the coins, such as ones with a particular minting date, or maybe the king that's printed on it, or so on.

If they're not removed, I'd personally like to have the Cormyrian coins (copper thumbs, silver falcons, golden lions, and platinum tricrowns) that are dropped in loot renamed to have a prefix of "rare" or "uncommon" in the name so it's clear that they're not being sold at their standard coinage value. So then a Rare Golden Lion might be worth mroe than a standard golden lion (1 gp) but it wouldn't cause confusion because it shares an identical name.

Yes, as far as FRC is concerned, the standard gold piece (worth 1 gp) is a golden lion, and all major transactions in Cormyr are priced in golden lions. Currency exchanges in Cormyr replace foreign coinage with golden lions.

It's not because I disagreed with Munroe that they were left as is. When the coins were first added, they were shown to Justicar IG during a group Skype meeting and he claimed they were fine as is (we'd also discussed whether or not to even have the Cormyrian coins as found loot at all). He was fine with them all being considered just "old caches" and not current currency RP wise and didn't think name changes were required. Secondly, despite Munroe's request to me later, the DM Team itself never voted or weighed in on the issue of whether or not to change them. Lacking a clear concensus, no change was made.