(04-07-2015, 12:46 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: Speculation:
Gil is the official coinage of Eorzea, but I suspect it's not all 1-gil coins. There's probably an equivalent of nickles and dimes, loonies and toonies.
It's my opinion that the highly wealthy wouldn't use a bank like you or I know them, but similar to older version of the banking note: If I've got businesses that are worth thirty million gil and I want to buy something expensive, I can just provision a note for X,000,000 gil and sign off on it.
This is making me want to look up exactly how old-timey holdings worked.
TO WIKIPEDIA after lunch
This pretty much sums up how I've gone about it so far. Especially after doing some research (on a casual level, I'm not great with maths) to get a conversion rate to use for my guild, which seems to show that coughing up 60 gil for an alcoholic drink is alright. I would not trust a drunk to count 60 coins - So maybe, there would be one for 50 and one for 10.Â
I've seen allagan pieces used in RP before, but I do not remember how they were acquired and I have not seen any lore on it either. The flavourtext states that it was minted during the allagan empire and, considering we have had a calamity and what not since, I wouldn't be inclined to think they were super common, unless a valiant effort was made to keep a lot of them safe so they could re-enter circulation.
