> From: "Carlson, Pam" <carlsonp_at_wdni.com>
> COINS
> Bill.McKinley:
> > This adds a useful MGF item to the game, as PCs check their coins to find
> > out what's going on in far away places. And Lunar haters would be likely
> > to reject coins that reflect (for example) the crushing of Starbrow's
> > rebellion.
>
> Good stuff!
>
> BTW- is there a common coinage? Or do sultanates and provinces mint
> their own? Perhaps they can mint copper coins, but not gold ones? Or
> maybe the Impire controls all the mints, but has them in several
> sultanates?
Simple logistics demands multiple mints, with Imperial (Etyries, mainly)
inspectors assuring the common quality of the coins produced. Add in the
prickliness of individual areas (Alkothi apparently don't even trust the
Raibanthi, let alone the Carmanians or the Glamourites, from the scenario
bits that I have seen on the Web), and it is practically certain.
And Orlanthi aren't stupid enough to reject the "Sartar defeated" coins,
but there will be a lot of accidents marring the obverse into unreadability.
Anyway, most of the coins in the "Southern Tarsh Administrative District"
probably celebrate the Friendship Between Lunar and Sartar (ie, Temertain
found, but under Lunar control) or the Destruction of the Perfidious Ducks,
since the Lunars don't want to talk about the earlier Lunar defeats that
sparked the revolt. Far better for all concerned to put an official Happy
Face on the whole thing. Who cares about the Storm Bulls or the Ducks,
anyway? (They came for the Socialists and the Jews, and I did nothing,
because I was neither...)