Gold Bars

[Oyvind Gronnesby]

In my opinion, gold bars are not physicly gold bars. It is hoards of coins
etc. (if they are in the cash version). Simply, you now can count on that
you have values worth a gold bar.
If you started melting all your valuables into gold bars then the campaign
setting suddenly sould be at a loss to where all the gold in the world went.
No, Gold Bars (GB), is just a symbol for values that equals 2000 gp.


Oyvind Gronnesby

[Aaron Sanderson]

I would tend to think that it is a mix of ingots and coins/jewels.
After all it is a whole lot easier to move ingots then coins and having
a standard sized ingot as a medium of exchange would make trade a whole
lot easier.
AmS.

>
>In my opinion, gold bars are not physicly gold bars. It is hoards of
coins
>etc. (if they are in the cash version). Simply, you now can count on
that
>you have values worth a gold bar.
>If you started melting all your valuables into gold bars then the
campaign
>setting suddenly sould be at a loss to where all the gold in the world
went.
>No, Gold Bars (GB), is just a symbol for values that equals 2000 gp.
>
>
>Oyvind Gronnesby
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[Trizt]

Oyvind Gronnesby (gronnesb@online.no) wrote:

- -> In my opinion, gold bars are not physicly gold bars. It is hoards of
coins
- -> etc. (if they are in the cash version). Simply, you now can count on that
- -> you have values worth a gold bar.
- -> If you started melting all your valuables into gold bars then the
campaign
- -> setting suddenly sould be at a loss to where all the gold in the world
went.
- -> No, Gold Bars (GB), is just a symbol for values that equals 2000 gp.

I hava always seen goldbars (GB) as a large gold plate or of other valuable
metal which can be much more easily be transported than 2000gp, but still
have the value of 2000gp. I have seen a few of those 17th century copper
"coins" which where produced in the Finnish-Swedish realm, this did have a
high weight, but was much easier to transport than coin (copper/siler) which
togheter had the same value as the copper piece.


//Trizt of Ward^RITE

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[Jim Paterson]

At 12:34 PM 26/08/98 PDT, you wrote:

>I would tend to think that it is a mix of ingots and coins/jewels.
>After all it is a whole lot easier to move ingots then coins and having
>a standard sized ingot as a medium of exchange would make trade a whole
>lot easier.
>AmS.

Trade is never easy. My thought is the GB represents currency to that value.
An ingot of gold is far to cumbersome to use as currency, Who could change one?






Cheers; Jim Paterson