Refrence taken from Scrolls of Luther, Lady Nyx Inc, Joe MacBain's expierence and John Norman's books on Gor
1 copper tarsk bit
10 copper tarsk bits = 1 copper tarsk can be 4, can be 8, can be 10 I tend to use 10 if not mentioned as other bit numerical amount on the coin
100 copper tarsks = 1 silver tarsk
10 silver tarsks = 1 gold tarn
2 gold tarns = 1 double weight gold tarn
On Gor in the books you will find that things do not cost the same as they do here and the amounts paid for items and what a coin is worth will differ. On the supply and demand factor of what people here can get hold of over what Goreans can get. Also the ave Gorean is not that fussed about tax and licence for animals VAT and all the rest of the crap that we have to put up with. Nyx's pages have a good look at some quotes and they stand firm to this day.
A golden tarn disk was a small fortune. It would buy one of the great birds themselves, or as many as five slave girls.
(Tarnsman of Gor - pg 91)
Five pieces of gold, in its way, incidentally, is also a fortune on Gor. One could live, for example, in many cities, though not in contemporary Ar, with it's press on housing and shortages of food, for years on such resources.
(Magicians of Gor - pg 468)
This is why I get pissed at people just throwing coin around like it falls from the sky but I still understand that many people do not see coin as a driving factor in roleplay anymore and everyone seems to be a millionare!
The merchant turned to me. He handed me a silver tarsk from the purse.
"You need give me nothing," I said. "It was not important."
"Take, if you will," said he, "as a token of my gratitude, this silver tarsk."
I took it. "Thank you," I said. Several of the men about, striking their shoulders in the Gorean fashion, applauded the merchant. He had been very generous. A silver tarsk is, to most Goreans, a coin of considerable value. In most exchanges it is valued at a hundred copper tarsks, each of which valued, commonly, at some ten to twenty tarsk bits. Ten silver tarsks, usually, is regarded as the equivalent of one gold piece, of one of the high cities. To be sure, there is little standardization in these matters, for much depends on the actual weights of the coins and the quantities of precious metals, certified by the municipal stamps, contained in the coins. Sometimes, too, coins are split and shaved. Further, the debasing of coinage is not unknown. Scales, and rumors, it seems, are often used by coin merchants. One of the central coins on Gor is the golden tarn disk of Ar, against which many cities standardize their own gold piece. Other generally respected coins on Gor tend to be the silver tarsk of Tharna, the golden tarn disk of Ko-ro-ba, the golden tarn of Port Kar, the latter particularly on the western Vosk, in the Tamber Gulf region, and a few hundred pasangs to the north and south of teh Vosk's delta.
(Rogue of Gor P 155)
Behind the desk, on the wall, there was posted a list of prices. They were quite high. I did not think that those were normal prices. If they were, I did not see how the inn could manage to be competitive. I struck the keeper's desk twice more. There was a tharlarion-oil lamp hanging on three chains from the ceiling, to my right, above the desk. Sample items from the list were as follows:
Bread and Paga..................2 C.T.
Other Food......................3-5 C.T.
Lodging.............................10 C.T.
Blankets (2).........................2 C.T.
Bath......................................1 C.T.
Bath girl................................2 C.T.
Sponge, oil and strigil..........1 C.T.
Girl for the night...................5 C.T.
Tarn, Meat and Cot.............5 C.T.
T., Greens and Stable.........2 C.T.
A comment, or two, might be in order on this list of prices. First, it will be noted that they are not typical. In many inns, depending on the season, to be sure, and the readiness of the keeper to negotiate, one can stay for as little as two or three copper tarsks a day, everything included, within reason, of course, subject to some restraint with respect to paga, and such. Also, the bath girl, and the sponge, oil and strigil, in most establishments, come with the price of the bath itself. The prices on the list on the wall seemed excessive, perhaps to a factor of five or more. The prices, of course, were in terms of copper tarsks.
For purposes of comparison, in many paga taverns, one may have paga and food, and a girl for the alcove, if one wants, for a single copper tarsk. Dancers, to be sure, sometimes cost two.
Renegades of Gor p 51-52
1 copper tarsk bit = 1 Earth penny
10 copper tarsk bits = 1 copper tarsk = 10 pence or a dime
100 copper tarsks = 1 silver tarsk = �10.00
10 silver tarsks = 1 gold tarn = �100.00
2 gold tarns = 1 doubleweight gold tarn = �200.00
Now I use Pounds Sterling as I am British (insert flag and anthem!! God bless You Ma'am!) but Gor does not work on the currency fluctuations that we do so You can work out from the US Dollar the same for your country. Why the US Dollar? not becuase world trade these days is based on the USD but I would use that as Norman is American and so his mindset would be based on the USD, see? good -nods-
