The Coinage of Caragore (a work in progress)

(Based on the very interesting money of our own past, obviously.)

Thanks to the conquests of the ancient Ligurians, most nations use coinage of approximately equal value, though often calling it by another name. Country-specific coins are noted near the bottom.

Maribus: A gold coin of the value of 25s., struck in the reign of Marus, an Emperor of Tachin.

Drach-pieces (drach) = 21s (named for the location of the gold mine -- the Drachenfels -- which yields superior gold)

sovereign (gold)(quid, noble, drach in common parlance)= 20s

half sovereign (gold)(dragon) = 10s

Rose Noble = 6s 8p (decorated with a rose, the emblem of a Cassyonian ruling family

florin = 2 shillings

shilling (silver)(franc, mark) = 12 pence

sixpence = 1/2 shilling (tanner, tester, head)

great silver penny (groat/joey), equal to four or five penny pieces

silver penny = 1 penny (pence, annan, sou, soldat, stiver, stater)

farthing: a fourth-part of a penny (maravedi, dam)

Journey-weight The weight of certain parcels of gold in the mint. A journey of gold is fifteen pounds Troy, which is coined into 701 sovereigns, or double that number of half-sovereigns. A journey of silver is sixty pounds Troy, which is coined into 3,960 shillings, or double that number of sixpences, half that number of florins, etc. So called because this weight of coin was at one time esteemed a day's mintage.

According to the preceding, 1lb. gold = 935 shillings; 1lb. silver = 66 shillings; gold = 14x silver.

Pound: The unit of weight (Latin, pondus, weight); also cash to the value of twenty shillings sterling, because in the Carlovingian period the Roman pound (twelve ounces) of pure silver was coined into 240 silver pennies (20 shillings).

talent of silver: 3000 shekels (1500oz silver -- 94lbs) or 6000 drachmas / shillings

Pennyweight So called from being the weight of an Ardalonian penny. Pwt. is p = penny wt. Lac = 10000 shillings

1 silver rupee = 2 shillings

annan = penny

dam = 1 twelfth of a rupee

Twopenny Dam: A dam was a coin and weight of ancient Orrisan. Originally a gold mohur contained sixteen dams; a punchee was = the quarter of a dam, and a brahgni = half a punchee.

Putting this in a tabular form, it would be thus:
2 b�rahg�nis = 1 punchee.
4 punchees = 1 dam (worth in its diminished value about 2 pence).
16 dams = 1 gold mohur (32 pence).

Maravedi (4 syl.). A very small Iberusian coin, less than a farthing.

Nine-pence is an Icenan shilling

Dragon: Half a sovereign in gold; so called because, at one time, it bore the figure of a dragon.

Noble: An ancient coin, so called on account of the superior purity of its gold.

Obelus: A silver coin (2 pence in value) placed by the Ligurians in the mouth of their dead. Same as obolos, an obol.

drachma (silver) = 6 obols or 100 lepta = 1 shilling

denarius: silver coin of Ligurian League = 1 shilling

ass = 1/16th a denarius

aureus: gold coin of Ligurian League = 25 denarii

TAXES:

Smoke Farthings: An offering given to the priest at Whitsuntide, according to the number of chimneys in his parish.

Smoke Silver: A modus of 6d. in lieu of tithe firewood.

Sound Dues: A toll or tribute that was levied by the King of Icena on all merchant vessels passing through the Sound.

WAGES:

50 shillings (600 pence): one year's salary for a noble's cook

sixpence: fee to shoe a horse (1% of cook's yearly wages)

pound (dinar, sovereign, gold ducat, 1.25 aureus) = 2 dragons = 4 marks (guilders, silver ducats) = 8 francs = 10 florins (silver rupees) = 20 shillings (drachmas, denarii) = 48 great silver pennies = 120 obols (dams) = 240 silver pennies (annas) = 960 farthings (maravedis)

East: 1 dinar (sovereign) = 8 mohurs = 20 drachmas (shillings) = 120 dams = 240 annas (silver pennies) = 480 punchees

West: 1 sovereign = 2 dragons = 10 florins = 20 shillings = 48 great silver pennies = 240 silver pennies = 960 farthings

Iberus: west but: gold ducat (sovereign); silver ducats (guilder/mark); maravedi (farthing)

Lerna: west but: 1 sovereign = 4 guilders = 8 francs

Drachenfels/Torne: west but: 1 sovereign = 4 marks

Ligurian League: west but: 1 maribus = 25 denarii (shillings); 1 aureus = 16 denarii (shillings) = 120 obols (240 pennies)

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