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  1. #1
    Oyvind Gronnesby
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    Gold Bars

    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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    Aaron Sanderson
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    Gold Bars

    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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  3. #3
    Trizt
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    Gold Bars

    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.


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  4. #4
    Jim Paterson
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    Gold Bars

    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

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