Gold Bars

The currency in use by the wealthy and upper classes in all Four Lands is the Gold Bar. It weighs about 40 pounds and is worth 2000 gp. While Gold Bars are very widely used, they are only very rarely possessed. In most cases, the wealth that is measured in Gold Bars is only kept in ledgers which are reconciled 4 times a year. Noble house may keep some Gold Bars, but even that is a rarity. They are held, in large part, by Banks and lending houses.

Barasin Paper

Barasin Paper is issued in two denominations: unari and sincari. The unari is worth one gold piece, the sincari worth five. These paper bills are about the size of an 3x5 index card and boast the signatures of the Imperator, the Presider of the Senate and the Aedile of the Treasury on the reverse side. Each of these notes is very light and it takes about 800 hundred of them to make a pound of weight.

Barasin Coins

The brass coins are issued in two denominations: the centaro and the decaro. Though made of brass the decaro is equal in value to a silver piece about the size of a silver dollar and weighs 1/50th of a pound. The centaro, though brass, is about the size of a dime and weighs 1/500th of a pound, and is valued at one copper. 

Southrun Coins

Southruners use a brass coin which comes in four sizes. The coins are stamped from antiquity in runes no longer known, but are widely referred to as grains, sacks, bushels, and wheels but are named the Dani, Guni, Payi, and Gari. They correspond in value to copper, silver, gold and platinum pieces respectively. While the weight of these objects varies, there are about 100 brass coins to the pound on average.

Eastrun Coins

Eastruners use a thin square iron coin in three denominations: wonjen, tinjen, and henjen. Each coin is stamped with the name of the minting house on one side and the character for the amount in the other. Because each house may produce its own currency, the coins represent a promissory note against that house's treasury. Coins are often kept on specially designed cords which are threaded through the coins.

There are about 100 iron coins to the pound.

Westrun Coins

Westruner coins are the Scepter (nail), Destrier (bit), Crown and Throne. Those coins correspond to the copper, silver, gold and platinum piece in value, but are all made of an alloy of copper and silver. Each is about the same size, though the shape varies. These coins were designed with portability in mind. They are even smaller than the ancient platinum piece and much thinner.

There are 200 coins to the pound, regardless of denomination.

Dwarven Coins "the Piece"

 

During the height of the Third Age, the Dwarves minted precious metals and fixed their weight to size ratio. The "Piece" comes in copper, silver, gold and platinum denominations. Most are poorly refined. 

Once the currency of all Erenth, the piece is valued by some for its ability to be reduced to simple bars of base metal. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the piece has been phased out by the kingdoms of men. It remains a telltale sign of the adventurer, freebooter or mercenary. 

No matter what sort of piece is used there are 50 to the pound.