You may wanna up that to 100 gold marks per month at least.
1 gold mark will not get you anywhere.
I'd said a gold mark per person a month, so 100 in total.
Actually, looking at the relative costs of the coinage, we either have to make copper coins worth less or increase the cost of food per person, because 2 copper coins to the silver mark is a horrible exchange rate. The King must be adulterating the coinage or something.
Or the GM is making up the relative coin values as he goes along.
If we assume that mesor's values are reasonable, that means that a person needs the monetary equivalent of almost three units of steel to buy food for a year. And that peasants would probably have stacks of silver in their storerooms. Are gold and silver that common?
In any case, why not just metric the marks? 10/10/10/10?
Because that leads to horrible math if the pennies are a silver/copper alloy. I suppose our copper works just as well.
Newest coinage values:
1 aluminum denier = 10 gold crowns* = 100 silver marks = 1,000 copper pennies
Copper is turned into coinage at a rate of 1 unit->1,000 coins, everything else is 1->500.
The king buys a unit of gold or silver for 400 crowns or marks. Copper is bought at 750 pennies or 75 marks per unit. Only licensed smiths can mint royal coins, and only when allowed to make a certain amount. Individual fiefs may mint their own coinage, but don't expect the king or rival fiefs to accept it. Ideally, peasants' transactions would be measured in pennies, let me know of any factors which would force you to sell peasants' goods for several marks.
*A name I just thought of and will change back to marks if there are any objections, I just thought that different names for different levels of currency made sense.
Any changes in price per unit of metal or fuel? And what are new prices for food?
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Plus this system is more accurate for the time period.
Which part, the part where a peasant needs silver to pay for bread?
