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On pack envelopes, the number of each denomination of coin to be included is given in square brackets in increasing value. You will most commonly see “18 rings [3, 3]”, as in 3×1 ring coins and 3×5 ring coins; as a more complicated example, [3, 2, 0, 1, 4] indicates that you need to pack:
On pack envelopes, the number of each denomination of coin to be included is given in square brackets in increasing value. You will most commonly see “18 rings [3, 3]”, as in 3×1 ring coins and 3×5 ring coins; as a more complicated example, [3, 2, 0, 1, 4] indicates that you need to pack:


3×1 ring, 2×5 rings, 0×1 crown, 1×4 crowns, 4×1 throne
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|-
| style="text-align: right" | '''3''' ×
|| 1 ring
|-
| style="text-align: right" | '''2''' ×
|| 5 rings
|-
| style="text-align: right" | '''0''' ×
|| 1 crown
|-
| style="text-align: right" | '''1''' ×
|| 4 crowns
|-
| style="text-align: right" | '''4''' ×
|| 1 throne
|}


=== Exchange rates ===
=== Exchange rates ===

Latest revision as of 20:22, 12 July 2023

Imperial coins

There are 8 coin denominations in the Empire:

1 ring
5 rings
1 crown
4 crowns
1 throne
5 thrones
20 thrones
100 thrones

Pack envelope notation

On pack envelopes, the number of each denomination of coin to be included is given in square brackets in increasing value. You will most commonly see “18 rings [3, 3]”, as in 3×1 ring coins and 3×5 ring coins; as a more complicated example, [3, 2, 0, 1, 4] indicates that you need to pack:

3 × 1 ring
2 × 5 rings
0 × 1 crown
1 × 4 crowns
4 × 1 throne

Exchange rates

These values relate to each other as shown here:

20 rings = 1 crown
8 crowns = 1 throne

Expanding that out:

20 rings = 1 crown
80 rings = 4 crowns = ½ throne
160 rings = 8 crowns = 1 throne
320 rings = 16 crowns = 2 thrones
800 rings = 40 crowns = 5 thrones
1600 rings = 80 crowns = 10 thrones
3200 rings = 160 crowns = 20 thrones
16000 rings = 800 crowns = 100 thrones

Remembering exchange rates

Most humans have twenty digits and one head (five fingers on each hand plus five toes on each foot), so if you wear one ring per digit and one crown per head you end up with twenty rings and one crown. The number of crowns to a throne doesn’t make any sense, but this is because while in-game There Have Always Been Ten Nations, out-of-character two of the nations are relatively new, so it used to be "eight nations makes one empire” and “eight (national) crowns make one (Imperial) throne”.

See also