At 14:34 +1300 05-03-08, Peter Metcalfe wrote:
>Furthermore Corflu being controlled by Guilds? Obviously a reference
>to the Imperial Age settlement and so one can infer that Guilders is
>a western reference.
*Someone* surely uses Guilders.
>Safelster's silver coinage would be both modern (ie Guilders) and
>retrogade to the good old days of the Autarchy. Although florins is
>attractive, its origin is the medievalf Florence which poses a problem
>in several ways. Hence I think Argents is more evocative in that it
>not only means silver but has some similarities to Arkat's name.
The name I'd picked (danar) was intended to evoke even older dynasties (the Dangan Confederacy), and probably the denarius. Guilder could work there (and would have been brought to Handra in that case). Of course, being Safelster, all these names could be in use (and the coins are probably not of standard size -- this latter is too tedious to play out IMO).
>Kralorela ... I think their silver currency
>would be either ounces of silver (when it isn't traded as banknotes).
I tend to use ounces in places that don't have coins (using Viking Iceland as a model). IMG that includes the Umathelan storm barbarians.
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