Re: OT: coins and currency (was: [Theory] Types of numerals)

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:11:15 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:

> Have y'all designed currency systems for your cultures?
I rather suspect Thagojians would use the currency of their host nation,
i.e. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Israel, at various points. I'm not sure
whether I want to introduce the notion of a 10th century Thagojian nation,
though it would be more on the scale of a micronation.

The Br'ga will have notions of trade, and *may* have picked up notions of
currency from Europeans. If I transplant them from the 17th-ish century to
the modern world, they'll probably have a dollar (or maybe "sikudo") made
up of 100 cents. I may have to make that step, in order to more
meaningfully write about them in a LLL-compatible way, which is one day
going to be the intent. I don't know enough 400-year-old Portuguese,
Spanish, *or* English to write the stuff I want to write, and I'm not sure
I could fake it.

Lizardmen have currency, though I haven't given it any thought. It'll be
real, concrete, currency: coins of silver and gold, and so forth. The idea
of paper money (to say nothing of a credit card!) would strike them as
downright underhanded, I suspect.




Paul