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Created page with "'''G''', or the '''gold piece''', is the standard currency of Liruzon. Unlike in the real world, where each nation usually has its own currency, in Undersided, currency is a matter of international standardization. A single G is, as of 913 SR, worth about a nickel or dime. As of 915, it is currently roughly valued at 0.27 Ezvelan dollars or 0.11 Tur-Myalvi shillings, such that a gram of gold costs 4,000 G (until 913, the realm of Yarz..."

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'''G''', or the '''gold piece''', is the standard currency of [[Liruzon]]. Unlike in the real world, where each nation usually has its own currency, in Undersided, currency is a matter of international standardization. A single G is, as of [[Timeline/900-999 SR|913 SR]], worth about a nickel or dime.

As of 915, it is currently roughly valued at 0.27 [[Ezvelan]] dollars or 0.11 [[Tur-Myalvi]] shillings, such that a gram of gold costs 4,000 G (until 913, the realm of Yarzon-Ebott used a different gold piece which was valued at about half that amount); for more common-place things, a loaf of bread is approximately 20 G, a cup of tea is approximately 30 G, and a night in a [[hotel]] room is approximately 100 G.

The history of the gold piece began with the standardization of currency by the empire of Niderazon in [[Timeline/0-99 SR|31 SR]]. Prior to this, the predecessor to the gold piece was actual golden coins, which were, as ten grams of gold, roughly 40,000 modern G, and thus only used for large purchases; the use of gold in this manner predated metallurgy.

The first gold coins minted by Niderazon retained the value of the earlier gold coins, but were much larger for convenience and were thus made of cheaper metals plated with gold. In the later Niderazon era as of the [[Timeline/200-299 SR|3rd century]], this was changed to brass as the tie to gold was changed from the direct composition of the coin to a formal valuing of the currency, allowing for the smaller coins to be valued at consistent fractions of the gold piece, most notably the penny at 1/120 G.

During [[Niderazon]]'s decline in the [[Timeline/500-599 SR|6th century]], the "true gold" (''sonfodrund'') money was changed to "king's gold" ( ''niegadrund'' ), now being given value by the state as opposed to deriving its value from some amount of precious metal; as a result, its value declined rapidly over the following decades, before stabilizing in many economies at roughly 25 modern gold pieces (after Niderazon's fall, and thus as the ''nikigadrund'' or "prince's gold") and slowly declining from there.

In recent times, the penny was retired, and the gold piece was standardized by the major economic center Farnitan (resulting in the "common gold" or ''ginzonindrund'' ). The Invasion of [[Yarzon-Watershed]] also caused a separation between Yarzon-Ebott's economy and the general economy of the wider world, causing the value of its gold piece to drop further. However, after 913, [[Yarzon-Ebott]] adopted the standard gold piece. In [[Yarzon-Ezvelan]], after [[Timeline/600-699 SR|662 SR]] and the [[Great Evacuation]], the gold piece was adopted as legal tender despite the proximity to and interaction with [[Ezef|Ezvanta]] economies which use the dollar.

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