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I don't use them, but I would like to. There are a few things on the shopping list where you buy multiples for 1sp (candles springs to mind) and some things might be a bit too expensive, especially, those things that peasants might buy.
Also, for those who like more realism, making gold pieces rare is more realistic. After reading a few sites on medieval economy, it seems that your average peasant would trade almost entirely by barter. 90% of the population would work for land for food. They would then give some of their gains to other people in return for other goods and services (such as blacksmiths for tools and millers to use the mill - millers also had a reputation for being dodgy). Outside of major cities where traders were buying and selling their goods, gold pieces were never seen.
There's also the idea that if heroes turn up to a village with a sackful of gold it will really mess up the economy. As far as my understanding goes (which probably isn't too far), flooding a place with gold coins will just devalue the gold coins, so that instead of a loaf of bread costing 5 copper pieces, it now costs 5 gold pieces. I suppose a (probably oversimplified) analogy is Germany in 1929 where people were using wheelbarrows full of money to pay for a loaf of bread because the government printed so much of it (money, not bread).
Also, if people don't really have gold pieces now, where did these hordes of gold pieces in dungeons come from? we find hordes of gold nowadays, but only rarely, usually in sunken treasure ships (in the 15th-16th century, Spain used to ship all the wealth from the Caribeann to Spain, but it was such a long journey that a lot of the ships sank) or Roman hordes. Looking at the Wikipedia page for Roman hordes, it is also apparent that there were very few gold coins there - most of them are silver, bronze and brass. They have also included things like pots, bowls and jewellery made from glass and other common materials. Their value probably lies more in the fact that they are 2000 years old than from their raw materials. Take comfort in the fact that in 2000 years, your crockery set could be worth a fortune.
So copper pieces should be abundant and treasure hordes are just as likely to be a bunch of ancient clay jars with nice paintings on them than a big pile of gold coins.
Statistics: Posted by Slloyd14 — Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:23 pm
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