Currency

A number of Mithican monetary systems exist, most based around silver coins of approximately congruous size. For the purposes of this article, we will consider the Runne silver piece (called the Cerrin) standard at two point one ounces.

Tsuruku and Pakao? favour a lighter silver coin (the Kashk) which weighs one point nine ounces and is visibly smaller. Although by weight the kashk is ninety percent the value of a Runnic Cerrin, popular opinion holds that the Tsurukan coin is worth only half as much. Rates at common moneychangers reflect this; only through the rare bank dealing in multinational currencies can one exchange in fairness.


The confederate nations of Runne share a system of coinage based around the silver Cerrin - also known as a round, a twenty, and a knife; an unskilled labourer earns an average of two Cerrins per day. Below the Cerrin is the Farrow, also known as coppers, copper-pieces, and pennies - ten of these are worth one Cerrin. Above the Cerrin is the gold Cham, also called an Eight (as it has eight sides,) a Shield (for each bears a small shield in one corner) or simply a gold.

Gold pieces are sometimes cut into eight, as one Cham is typically far more money than the average person deals in. The resulting piece of eight is worth two and one-half silver pieces.

Runne co-ordinates the manufacture of the gold Cham and silver Cerrin coins, regulating their weight and shape. However, each of the component nations is allowed to determine the strike-face of their coins at will as long as the shield (for Cham coins) and knife (for Cerrin) are integrated into the design.

The production of copper pieces is uncoordinated, with their existence and value more a result of general consensus and the price of copper than an actual governmental decision. As a result, power-centers of almost every scale produce their own Farrows in some quantity, usually with an artistic strike on one face and the city or county's name and a crude indication of its location on the obverse.

Farrows vary wildly in terms of size, weight, and shape; however, they tend to be accepted as one-tenth a silver piece regardless.




Ansica uses paper bills drawn on precious metals held by the Grand Banc de Ansica. The unit of currency is the Cesicca, and a labourer typically earns eighty Cesicca a day.


Tamera uses a metric approach consisting of three coins; the smallest is the silver Chellah at point-five ounces, the middle Tarvah at one ounce, made out of electrum; and the largest, a one-ounce gold coin called the Nahtar. Ten Chellah make one Tarvah, while ten Tarvah are worth one Nahtar. For comparison, one Tarvah is worth 2.63 Cerrin.

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