This assumes a steady supply of constant weight from mines, presumably. This became hard to ensure historically so how are people in the Empire doing it? (Let alone how do they deal with Fiscal Anarchists, etc, messing with carefully prepared weights and measures).
I assume that most coinage is subject to varying purity of metal and cutting, clipping, and more or less official forms of value-corruption. I like the idea that people with coining-magic can make coins that resist such treatment, but without it there is no real protection. So Lokarnos worshippers make wheels and darkness-types make bolgs, but the ubiquitous Lunar might lack any magical value assurance making its worth mostly derived from official sanction rather than inherent metallic quality. (or have I missed some Lunar coining magic somewhere?)
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John Machin
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