Shocked that Lords Alliance have not set up a banking system yet. #DnD #ForgottenRealms Lore
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Different value of coins for locations used to be an issue before we had banks.I assume this weird value system was caused by same problem:)
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I would assume the problem remains... Prhaps differently in regards to currency. Partic the exchange rate for local currency in/out of area.

Aug 9, 2017 · 8:33 PM UTC

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Because differences in currency are one more great "quiet" driver of Realms adventures/stories, at the gaming table and in fiction. :}
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😏 and here in America it isnt uncommon to find a Canadian dime in your pocket 😏 they do look nearly identicle in a handful of coins 😏
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...world in this regard.
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...who make a daily living off the differing values of currencies they sell and buy. I crafted things in the Realms to be like the real...
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...or stock up on. There are folks in Canada, the US, the UK (and presumably many other countries, whom I don't happen to know personally)..
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..."strange" money, if you believe me not. Currency exchanges can be even wilder, depending on what currencies they're trying to unload...
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...banks doesn't iron out most "foreign currency valuations" differences. Try it the next time you go far aboard and come back with...
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...foreign money I'm trying to convert (or if I have an account there, or an account in those foreign funds there). Point is, presence of...
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In the city I grew up in, I even get different rates of exchange for the same currency WITHIN the same bank branch, depending on how MUCH..
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...try to "change" it into your local currency. Banks add fees or don't, follow a central (in the US, "federal") rate of exhange or don't.
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Folks, a banking system has little effect on varying values of currencies. Walk into your local real-world bank with foreign currency and...
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