Re: OT: coins and currency

Michael Potter wrote:
> The San Francisco dollars were 40% silver until 1976 (the bicentennial
> reverse).
I hadn't known that.  The other two mints were non-silver, though,
right?  Were those San Francisco ones intended for circulation?

> According to that page, the .81 cent figure is from the 2000 Annual
> Report. The price of zinc has doubled in that time
Oh?  Didn't know there had been such a large change in zinc prices.

> See, I haven't thought about historical aspects of Suzhoni currency, and
> now you've made me go and think about it!
>
> Seriously, I'm glad there's somebody else on here that seems to be
> interested in this. I think we left everybody else behind after about
> the first sentence.
>
> ObConlang:
>
> The Suzhoni don't have banknotes. Or at least none issued by the central
> government. Each of the 19 states is allowed to issue its own notes, but
> the people, much like Americans of days gone by, prefer "real" money:
> metal coinage.
I think a similar reason lies behind the low use of banknotes in the
Kassi Empire.  No centralization of banknote production made them less
convenient, particularly since most of them were issued by private
banks, and more susceptible to counterfeiting, reducing trust in them.
Perhaps there had also been some bad examples of banks folding,
destroying their notes' value

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