Silver coins:
Also called silvers and silver pieces. The Empire of the Seven Swords, Vekmar, and the Holtens produce silver pieces bearing a symbol of the nation on one side and a mint mark on the other. The Empire's coins are called "swords" for the diamond and sword emblem uniting the Empire and Bor on a coin. Other silver coinage is regularly seen including coins minted during the time of the Empire of Dawn. Tor-Manash mints an ochre-tinted coin called the "red snake" cast from silver but coated with a dye. Old coins with the dye worn away are called "skinned snakes".
Gold coins:
The most common coin of adventurers, there are many different varieties of gold coins. Within the Empire, gold coins are typically called Golden Emperors because the Empire mints coins with the current Emperor's bust on one side. Tilgash uses the six-sided danter coin, as well as several coins created from private mints held by merchant houses. The Dwarven Kingdom mints a beautiful gold coin inlaid with an intricately designed knot of platinum called a half-moon. All gold coins throughout Caedes are more or less worth one gold standard.
Platinum coins:
Relatively rare but used by successful (and boastful) adventurers and merchants. Platinum coins are called septswords in the Empire. They are known as plats in Vekmar. The merchants of the Tilgash Towns call these coins "pearls". Platinum coins that date back to the reign of the Serpents are commonly known as roldons. The Northern nations where the moon is revered as a god are particularly fond of platinum coins which are commonly minted into jewelery to be worn. As money and change is needed, the coin is hacked off the jewelery piece and given in trade.
Silver and Gold Marks
Northmen of the Shefings and Asclings by and large do not use a fixed coinage system and do not mint money. Instead they buy and sell using the actual weight of silver and gold.
A common phenomenon is for Northmen to wear silver or gold jewelry, typically arm-rings and to hack off bits to pay for things are needed. A pouch full of chopped up bits of silver is often called "hack-silver."
The chief measure is the MARK, which is equal to one half of a pound. A mark of silver (abbreviated SM) is worth 2.5 gp or 25sp in coins. A mark of gold (abbreviated GM) is worth 25 gold pieces or 10sm. Smaller measures are expressed in fractions of a mark (an eighth being very common).
