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Currency and Trade

Currency

Dilandri is not enough of a commercial world for it to benefit from a global currency; each nation continues to have its own coinage and system, making travel a rather difficult affair for the common man. The only reliable banking houses exist in the Drian Confederacy, Varthmik, and Dragonsport, and those are viewed as corrupt, slow, and dangerous. The majority of Dilandri still uses commodity currencies of gold, electrum, and silver; paper money is known only in Varthmik, and any type of formalized credit is unknown outside of a few very large banks and businesses.

Modern Currencies

Drian Rither: (RYE-thur)
The standard currency system of the Drian Confederacy, Lorlot, and Vestian, named for its primary mint in Firsarith. It is a sterling silver cast coin approximately the size of a half-dollar.

A Rither is equal to 36 Sheaves (a cobalt cast coin approximately the size of a penny).
A Sheaf is equal to 6 Costers (a nickel cast coin approximately the size of a quarter).
A Coster is equal to 6 Strikers (a copper hammered coin approximately the size of a nickel).

Rithers, Sheaves, and Costers bear no year markings, instead changing molds every twelve years. Strikers bear a year marking. No Drian coins carry the image of the Emperor.

Kraustlandt Thaler:
Kraustlandt's currency, as well as Derlontra, Oasis, and the Half-elf Lands, is based on the Thaler, a silver struck coin roughly the size of an averaged-sized palm.

A Thaler is equal to 40 Pennings (silver struck coins the size of a dime), and half, quarter, and eighth Thalers (equal to 20, 10, and 5 Pennings each) are commonly seen, as a Thaler is chopped into fractional bits.

Inveran Royals:
Inveran, due to its robust economy, has its own currency usually accepted along the Serinas River, as well as in Lorlot and the Argo. The Royal is more commonly known as the Crown, due to its dominant image of the Inveran crown on its reverse. The front is stamped with the visage of the current king. It is a gold milled coin and, like all other Inveran currency, is the size of a quarter.

A Crown is equal to 10 Sovereign (a silver milled coin).
A Sovereign is equal to 10 Heirs (a copper milled coin).

Inveran currency has the distinction of being the only currency with reeded edges, a tremendous advancement in preventing shaving and snipping of the currency.