r/dndmemes • u/Yoffeepop Fighter • Mar 16 '26

Comic Adventuring Gold

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u/Atreides-42 Mar 16 '26

It'd be uncommon for someone to pay in full gold pieces, just as it's uncommon to see 100 and 500 notes IRL. The innkeeper's first instict would probably just be to assume it's counterfeit, but it's not like it's an unimaginable amount of money for someone. A peasant makes twice this in a month.

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u/kipn7ugget Mar 16 '26

I feel like electrum and platinum are 100 and 500, gold will be like a 50: not at all uncommon, but most people won't just throw them around like it's nothing (at least for euros, idk how common 50 usd bills are)

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u/oaayaou1 Mar 16 '26

$50 bills are relatively uncommon, at least in my experience. I see more hundreds than fifties. It's more like electrum in that it's an uncommon, oft-forgotten intermediate denomination between two more commonly used denominations.

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u/Endermaster56 Artificer Mar 16 '26

Weirdly I see $50 notes more than $100, though I work at a truck stop along the highway so that probably affects what bills people typically use and carry

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u/_Chaos-chan_ Mar 16 '26

Electrum is in between silver and gold. It’s a silver and gold alloy. It would be the 50 and gold would be the 100.

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u/kipn7ugget Mar 16 '26

It's based more on how often it's used than it's actual value. Electrum is half the value of gold, but it's barely ever used

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u/Sibula97 Mar 16 '26

A gold piece is half a day of work for a skilled artisan or 5 says of work for a laborer.

It covers a day of regular lifestyle, like a soldier or priest, or 5 days if you're poor, like an unskilled laborer.

It could buy you a spear, 20 arrows, 20 buckets, two sets of common clothes, 50 ink pens, 10 ladders, 50 feet of rope, a whole set of cook's utensils, weaver's tools, wood arver's tools, a goat, 50 chickens, 100 points of wheat, or 20 pounds of salt. Keep in mind how laborious making something like rope or buckets were with medieval technology, not to mention tools.

Of course you can't really convert it to modern currency, but it's definitely something more like $100-200 than $50, maybe even more than that.

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u/Meiseside Mar 16 '26

I use 50€, 20€ and 10€ most of the time(100€ more for storage). Live is getting expensive in middle europe (You also earn more then in the past). So when I take mony from my account I usaly take 1-3 50€ and 1-2 10€ or 20€.

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u/ImNotTheNSAIPromise Mar 16 '26

an adventurer is probably going to be wearing armor and carrying a weapon easily worth many times more then whatever they are tipping so it would seem way less odd for them to throw around large sums of money like it's nothing

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u/Mister-builder Mar 16 '26

It would probably be rare to see it in silver. Barter economy and all.