Jubilex
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(10/9/02 1:31 pm)
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Currency
The Known World operates on a gold standard (the ubiquitous Lunar), with each coin containing 1/50 of a pound of pure gold. One Lunar is the equivalent of 10 silver Heads (each weighing 1/50 of a pound as well). Finally, the lowly copper Slug is one tenth of a silver Head in worth and weighs 1/50 of a pound.
The Lunar gets its name from the vast and powerful Lunar Empire. It is a standard coin with the Three Columns on one side, and the Crescent Moon on the other. Each Lunar is stamped with the year in which it was minted.
The Head is called such because local rulers and potentates use this coin to immortalize themselves, plastering their crude likenesses on the silver disks they mint themselves.
The Slug is a misshapen chunk of worn copper, and is as often melted down for use in tool-making as traded as currency. It has never acquired a more noble name than the one it started with back in the mists of history.
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