Value of Gold

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:57 am

I have a question for you...

Can anyone supply me with the value for gold by the pound in the major countries of Palladium? I have a character with a couple of 5 pound ingots, and I would like to know how much he might eventually sell them for.

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:17 am

Loverly...just loverly...

However, boss...real world stats are nice, but are not what I was askin' 'bout... :oops:

As for the other gent...if you could kindly provide page number... I've gone through the book a couple of times and didn't find it.

I also know that the figure is out there, since I've seen it posted somewhere before.

Goliath Strongarm · Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:27 am

Gold is 2500/LB

Page 275, 2nd edition. Also has silver, bronze, brass, then goes into stones.

Hope that helps.

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GS
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Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:31 am

Goliath Strongarm wrote:Gold is 2500/LB

Page 275, 2nd edition. Also has silver, bronze, brass, then goes into stones.

Hope that helps.

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GS

BLESS YOU!!! :angel:

It does...and BM, with THAT figure, I will be reducing the number of bars down to two from five...

Goliath Strongarm · Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:36 am

Borast wrote:
Goliath Strongarm wrote:Gold is 2500/LB

Page 275, 2nd edition. Also has silver, bronze, brass, then goes into stones.

Hope that helps.

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GS

BLESS YOU!!!

It does...and BM, with THAT figure, I will be reducing the number of bars down to two from five...

Devil's advocate here.. As a fellow GM< I gotta say, that would be committing a cardinal sin. You said 5, and, even if you didnt realize how valuable, you need to roll with 5.

However, theft, ripoffs, conartists, etc, are all highly accepted forms of reducing the amount. Theres also the fact that, most places dont want to trade in ingots, nuggets, or anything other than coins. So, he'll have to go to a moneychanger. Can we say "20% changeover fee?". And then, how good is the characters math skill? "Wow... I have 1..2...10! 10 Gold coins for all them big rocks!" Also, does the char have recognize precious metals/stones (AKA: Gemology)? If not, sorry, thats FOOLS GOLD!

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GS
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Veknironth · Unread post by **Veknironth** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:24 pm

Well, the other option is 2 bars of gold, 3 bars of somethign that looks like gold.

-Vek
"GM's word stands."

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:31 am

Hmmm...nah, even with the "inheritance" angle, it's be kinda hard to explain why she has 62,500gps worth of 24 karat gold in addition to the other things she carries/carried (she's 1st level).

BUT, we're going into backstory items that only myself and the GM need to know, and at least one of our group (other than BM & myself) frequents the boards. :quiet:

UR Leader Hobbes · Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:58 pm

Goliath Strongarm wrote:Gold is 2500/LB

Page 275, 2nd edition. Also has silver, bronze, brass, then goes into stones.

Hope that helps.

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GS

Have you considered the effect of the currency table in the LOB?

For simplicity sake assume that the ammounts listed are for the middle tier on the currency table. That seems most reasonable sense the first area of the world to be fleshed out was Timro.

So those ignots may be worth more in other areas and less in others.

Yisterwald · Unread post by **Yisterwald** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:33 am

UR Leader Hobbes wrote:So those ignots may be worth more in other areas and less in others.

As well they should be. There's no reason, other than GM convenience, for commodities to all have the same value the world over. The purchasing power of those gold bars could (and should) vary widely.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:38 pm

In regards to the karat issue, it should be noted that all PF coins are a mixture of precious metals, primarily silver & gold, not pure silver, gold, etc.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:18 pm

Just to ensure that the original question in answered.

Coin Values in absolute “gold” value*
12500 = Nimro 50,000
5000 = OK 5000
2500 = Nimro 10,000 = 1 pound of gold
1250 = Nimro 5000
1000 = OK 1000
500 = OK 500 = 1 pound of silver
250 = Nimro 1000 = 1 pound of bronze/brass
125 = Nimro 500
100 = OK 100, WE 100, P&L 100, Biz 100, Wolf 200
80 = P&L 80
62.5 = Nimro 250
60 = P&L 60
50 = OK 50, WE 50, Biz 50, ET 100, Tim 100, Wolf 100, Nimro 200
40 = P&L 40, Tim 80
37.5 = Nimro 150
30 = P&L 30
25 = OK 25, WE 25, Biz 25, ET 50, Wolf 50, Nimro 100, ORC 100
20 = Tim 40
12.5 = Wolf 25, LotSW 50, Nimro 50, ORC 50
10 = WE 10, P&L 10, Biz 10, ET 20, Tim 20, Wolf 20
8 = P&L 8
6.25 = LotSW 25
6 = P&L 6
5 = WE 5, P&L 5, Biz 5, ET 10, Tim 10, Wolf 10
4 = P&L 4
3 = P&L 3
2.5 = ET 5, Tim 5, Wolf 5, LotSW 10, ORC 10
2 = Biz 2
1.5 = Tim 3
1.25 = LotSW 5, ORC 5
1 = P&L 1, ET 2, LotSW 4
0.75 = LotSW 3
0.5 = Biz 1/2, ET 1, Tim 1, LotSW 2
0.25 = ET 1/2, LotSW 1, ORC 1

Abbreviations
Biz = Bizantium
ET = Eastern Territories
LotSW = Land of the South Winds
Nimro = Mt Nimro
OK = Old Kingdom
ORC = Orcish Empire
P&L = Phi & Lopan
Tim = Timiro
WE = Western Empire
Wolf = Wolfen Imperium

*Nimro uses “trade bars” instead of coins, some LotSW coinage is actually paper money, coin metal is not shown in this table.
Note: Number next to abbreviation indicates coin value.
For more information, see LOB, pages 122-128.