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====== Dinars & Dirhams ====== | ====== Dinars & Dirhams ====== | ||
- | A copper bit, or a copper fels, (" | + | A copper fels, (" |
A dirham was made of silver. They' | A dirham was made of silver. They' | ||
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A dinar was made out of gold. They' | A dinar was made out of gold. They' | ||
+ | On Earth, copper fels weighed between five and six grams, and dirham and dinars both weighed 4.3 grams. This is in line with what ACKS suggests, but we instead follow the 5e PHB where they weigh 0.02 pounds. That's twice as much as on Earth, but… coins are tricky to carry. | ||
+ | You can't easily make exchanges between coppers, dirhams and dinars. Especially now that [[al-qadim/ | ||
- | Historically copper fels weighed between five and six grams, and dirham and dinars both weighed 4.3 grams. This is in line with what ACKS suggests, but we instead follow the 5e PHB where they weigh 0.02 pounds. That's twice as much as historical, but… coins are tricky to carry. | ||
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- | You can't easily make exchanges between coppers, dirhams and dinars. Especially now that [[Setara]] is dead. You can think of them as roughly 100 coppers to 10 dirhams to 1 dinar. But some merchants value silver higher, or lower. |