Imessian Currency

In the High Kingdom of Imesse, the common currency is the gold guilder (1g).  The guilder is a gold coin of 22 carats (92% pure) weighing one half of an ounce, stamped with the portrait of the Sovereign (High King in the North, King in the South) on the obverse and the quartered arms of the regional mint where it was minted on the reverse.  The guilder is minted every five years or upon the crowning of a new monarch.  Old guilders are cashed in for new guilders at a rate of 19 new coins for every 20 old coins.  The guilder is divided into 20 silver shillings (1s), also weighing half of an ounce and stamped from 92% pure silver.  Shillings are minted every five years or with the crowning of a new monarch, just as the guilders are, but with the cost of one new guilder for every 21 old shillings.  The shilling is divided into 12 copper pennies (1p), all weighing one quarter of an ounce of 91% pure copper.  All are stamped in the same manner as the guilders and shillings, but are very, very rarely exchanged for newly minted coins.
All Imessian coins can be "broken" or "chopped" into smaller pieces of metal by cutting them along the quarters stamped into the reverse side of the coin.  In this way, a penny can be broken in half to produce a Half Penny (ha'penny) or into quarters to produce a Farthing (one-fourth of a penny).  A half-guilder is a Bob or Bobbin (10 shillings).  A half-shilling is a Sixpense (6p) and a quarter-shilling is a Thru'pense (3p).  The Kingdom of Lesser Imesse began minting Two Penny coins (2p or tu'pense) about ten eyars ago, and they are very popular coins and frequently found in use all over both Kingdoms.

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