This is about the different currencies and coins of the Wicthwine and Myrten region.
Scentral uses the quas, the halfcent, the cent, and the two-cent.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwqWwjFBHM
The two-cent is a rectangular iron piece with rounded edges. As iron is rarer than copper and tin, this is more valuable than the cent. It is casted by a blacksmith and comes out usually 4mm thick. The two-cent is engraved with the portrait of a Scentral ruler (portrait varies on when the coin was made).609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPZ9lezK3p
The cent is a combination of bronze, copper, and tin pieces molded together through recasting by a blacksmith. It is rectangular like the two-cent, typically with rounded edges. Unlike the two-cent, it is thinner, coming out about 1mm thick. This is so that the cent can be broken in half and then into fourths for the halfcent and quas. The cent has four bits to it that can be broken off, with the bronze bits diagonal from each other and the tin and copper bits diagonal from each other. The cent is engraved with a stamp of the portrait of a Scentral ruler (depending on the current ruler at the time of making the coin), and (on later coins) the pattern of the Scentral flag's pattern.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxNeYdKazy
The process to cast a cent starts with making bronze through copper and tin and then grabbing some more copper and tin to cast. The casting starts with the bronze casted first, with two pieces, one with half of the portait and one with half of the flag. Then, they are placed into a new mold where the tin and copper will be poured and then solidify. Each piece it pressed or hammered with a chisel to flatten it out to 1mm. With its 1mm thickness and the shoddy way of making it, the cent is easy to break into fourths.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcCdpVJMlX
With the two-cent, the process is the pour iron into a mold and let it solidify. A two-cent can't be easily broken.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLb98ig2OTu
Other names for the coins are:609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Xw5mEypFJ
quas: quarter-cent, quarter, fourth-cent, tin cent (it was not always made of tin), tin piece, tin quas, quas piece, quarter piece, piece609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIYCfL1JrX
halfcent: two quarter-cents, two quarters, two fourth-cents, copper cent (it was not always made of copper), copper piece, copper quas, halfpiece, two pieces, two quas609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPd0Tw5hgHn
cent: whole cent, bronze cent, bronze piece, bronze quas, four pieces, four quas609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdCBJWeCwN
two-cent: two cents, double cent, double piece, iron cent, iron piece, iron quas, two-piece, eight pieces, eight quas609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwBayro5Dv
*The most common ways to call a cent is basing it off of quas (for instance: 1 quas and 1 halfcent is 3 quas, but 2 cents can also be 8 quas, and 2 cents and 1 halfcent can be 10 quas), However, basing it off of cents is also common, especially in counties near the west and north (so 1 cent and 1 halfcent is one-and-a-half cents, and 1 cent and 3 quas is one-and-three-quarters cents).
Myrten uses wos as their political currency. Wos are pieces of compressed bark from the Wosig willow tree, an abundant tree in the far reaches of the desert, enclosed around the purest of silver. The wos is rarely used in common day-to-day life, usually only used for extremely large transactions or war trophies because bartering is the Myrten's typical way of mercantilism.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7xVAZIKC5
The wos is typically carved with the symbols of the gods and the personal symbols of the lers Ryri that produce the wos. The bark is hardened by the Creation thaumaturgy that the lers Ryri possess, usually taking ten or more layers of bark and compressing it into one casing around a small amount of silver, usually around 50g of silver. One wos is typically 5-8mm thick, about 2.3 times longer than the cent in length and 1.2 times in width, and it's rectangular, too, with softened edges and right angles. There is no casting or forging involved in the process, only Creation thaumaturgy to compress it.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2z9ITXsJ7
Other names for the wos are: wosigind, wosig piece, bark piece, bark coin, wood piece, wood coin, silver coin, silver piece, silver bit, silver bar, wos coin, Ryrant, Ryring, lersant, lersing609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAmA63C5TJ
Silver is practically nonexistent in the Wicthwine region and it has great properties for thaumaturgy, making the wos the most valuable currency unit in the entire region. It is able to be opened by chipping away at the bark with an iron tool (iron being another rare metal in the region); using iron because bronze and copper bends more easily than iron, making the process with bronze tools much, much longer (and stone tools also don’t work very well, most rocks just making a small nick in the bark). Chipping away the bark usually takes a few weeks of day-to-day work, making the value of the wos less than it should be (the silver is worth over 1000 Republic pounds, for instance, but the required strong tools further decrease the value to foreigners, and so the wos is now worth 500 Republic pounds). However, to a Myrten warrior or master craftsman, this gift from the lers Ryri is invaluable and they would never think of breaking the wosigind casing.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztngQShGRo
Wos can mean "coin" in Myrten's language, though it has no literal translation and is rather an abbreviation of wosig-egind, or wosigind. Wosig means "willow tree", while "egind" means bark, and so wosigind mean "willow tree bark". Brant means "metal disc" or "coin" and Branting means "metal ingot" or "metal bar", and so adding -ant or -ing to Ryri or lers (Ryrant, Ryring, lersant, lersing) makes it mean "lers Ryri coin" or "lers Ryri ingot".
Dongguo uses yuan (元) as their political currency. Yuan are small, thick, rectangular pieces of bronze made from casting, similar to the cent. Like the Myrten, yuan are only used for large transaction and bartering is the more common way of life, though rice is also used a a very common medium for transactions.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5myPCRf6cU
A yuan is engraved with a year when it was made, the city and office where it was made, and the name of a Southeast ruler (depending on the current ruler when it was made).609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv8BY7przyr
A measurement of rice, called a koku (石), which is approximately 150kg, named using the tribal languages of the Southeast, is used far more often than the yuan. However, if dealing with foreign money conversion, yuan are used.
The Macdha Country uses the cilaonn as their main currency. It was made of copper and about 4mm thick and round.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZk2SmsQb2
The earliest cilaonn were simple, round, stamped-flat coins without any engraving.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRerTohFlz
The cilao of the Freir Kingdom had the portrait of the late King on it, as well as the year it was made. After the King died, coins were made with a Dragon's full-body portrait on it.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7O2UdgU2U6
Other names for the cilao were: cilaobonn (ki-lee-bon), copper piece, copper coin, kilo coin, kilo609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtUt2gmg6K
Cilao in the Macdha language means "kilo" or "thousand", while bhon mean "coin". Its name had nothing to do with how much it weighed, as it usually weighed 3-4g.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupAOStfEuk
The cilao is not as common as it once was before Scentral defeated Freir and now technically rules over the Macdha Country, but the coin is still seen used in local markets.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEV7qe4iJyf
Singular is cilao (ki-lee), plural is cilaonn (ki-leen).
The Democracy uses pounds as their physical currency and cheque notes as their main currency. One pound was equal to one kilogram of bronze. Pounds were usually in the shape of a rectangular prism, with around the length of 80mm and width of 30mm. The bronze tended to be the purest a makeshift factory could produce. A bank note is typically 5-9cm in width and 13-19cm long and made of paper.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9PVTsuPDP
The pound was engraved with the month and year it was manufactured as well as the name of the first bank it was issued to and the names of the senators who approved of the production of the batch of pounds.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDwptf2JcG
Depending on the bank, a cheque note usually has the exact date it was made, the cheque number (in other words how many cheques have already been issued before the current one), the name of the bank, and a unique number on it that determined how many pounds it was worth and a verification that the note is legal. For instance, one number might be 1/4p-6739349, meaning it is worth a fourth of a pound, and, say, 67 might be the age of the bank's owner, the note is the 4393rd of its kind (3934 backwards), and a specific senator's given name is 9 letters long. Every bank has a different secret formula for writing the unique number, and after it is put onto the note it is written down in a complex ledger, putting down how much it's worth, etc. Every bank also has a special way of marking the notes to further verify its legality, such as making one part of the note darker than the other parts of the note, or making it so that depending on the value a certain part of the note has a series of very specific black squares in a pattern. These are just some simple examples of how banks try to keep things legal and keep counterfeit notes from popping up in circulation. However, it does pose a problem that the cheque must be turned in to the bank that created it, which can be a tedious task if the owner of the cheque is across the country, or a terrible dilemma if the bank owner when bankrupt, as the banking business if highly competitive.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQw5d8KesQ4
A pound might also be called a bar.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZGJP78Btx
A cheque note might also be called a bank note.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFk7Lyc3ucF
Cheque notes have proven to be a poor idea when inflation comes into play, and there is a revision of the note system during and after the war with Scentral in the setting of The Thaumaturgists of Wicthwine.
The Kinfolk Republic uses Republic pounds as their main source of currency. Named after the Democracy's pounds, these are actually round coins (the second round coins to be introduced to the region, with the Freir's cilao being the first). The Republic pound is around 2mm thick. It is made by casting using bronze.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYaMnnVu93
The Republic pound is engraved with the year it was made and the office that minted it, as well as a fish one the back of it (the type of fish varies between years and offices).609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkBxkxHGmi
The Republic pound is also called the Republic coin.
These are the conversion values of each unit of currency:609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfYm5TIESK
1 cent = 11 cilaonn = .03 pound = 2.25 yuan = 8 Republic pounds = .016 wos609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dqfZsmacw
1 cilao = .09 cent = .0027 pound = .203 yuan = .72 Republic pound = .0015 wos609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwX01mys8f
1 pound = 33 cents = 363 cilaonn = 74.25 yuan = 264 Republic pounds =.53 wos609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jcx18jrWv
1 yuan = .44 cent = 4.8 cilaonn = .013 pound = 3.5 Republic pounds = .007 wos609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fZvc95KIO
1 Republic pound = .125 cent = 1.38 cilaonn = .0038 pound = .28 yuan = .002 wos609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITcvpjPWDZ
1 wos = 62.5 cents = 687.5 cilaonn = 1.9 pounds = 140.6 yuan = 500 Republic pounds
