S T U F F S

Or, Goblinoid notions of Suspended Value, and peasantry route-tender

STUFFS ( § ) are tradable usable small salvage: bits n bobs, manufacturing trim, dry food scraps, garden and workyard pickings. Stuffs have no immediate combat, medicinal, or nutritional value, and are considered Junk by the Weak Races. Thus bartering with Stuff is done at a poor exchange unless with Orks, Goblins, or Barbarians.

Examples of Stuffs: very small coins, lesser herbs, cloth, thongs, string, bent nails, chainlink rings, holed tinkerware, chipped crockware.

Current rates of exchange have been established as Stuffs : Grain : Silver : Gold =
§ : Ꮆ : ₴ : ₪ = 468 : 117 : 13 : 1

GRAINS ( Ꮆ ) are a common traderoute tender of the region, acceptable on most parts of the continent. Their mintage is of dulted silver (~8% actual silver, remainder nickle) the size of an American 25¢; (<2.5cm diameter, <0.2cm thickness).

Trade values will adjust periodically by the formula

1D8 Stuffs : 1 Grain
2D8 Grains : 1 Silver
(2D8) ÷ 1.5 + 1D8 Silver : 1 Gold

OR in response to sudden widespread developments.

Cash Holders have a set of test tools called Treasury (col. "Fair Usury," by every peasant trader and person of note; anyone who has had to traffic beyond villages and towns) Tines: a pair of identical tuning wands and a set of plates of various alloys and sizes. To test for accepted compositional purity one wand is struck against a plate with the same composition as the tender, and the tender is struck with the other wand. The resulting notes from the two wands are compared. If they match, the coin or piece is good.