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== [[Literature]] ==
* New Yen in the ''[[Sprawl Trilogy]]''
* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', wizarding Britain uses galleons, sickles and knuts; overlaps with [[Gold Silver Bronze Standard]]. One galleon is about equal to £5.
* ''[[Gor]]'' has Tarn Disks/Tarsks, which use the [[Gold-Silver-Copper Standard]].
* Played with in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/The Restaurant At The End of The Universe|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', a group of people have crash-landed on an uninhabited planet. They decide to adopt the leaf as their currency. The upside: Everyone immediately becomes fantastically rich. The downside: it costs approximately three ''[[Ridiculous Future Inflation|entire forests]]'' to buy one peanut. The solution: burn down all the trees.
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* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' has three terms for coinage: penny, mark and crown. However, these can be made of [[Gold-Silver-Copper Standard|different materials]], with a gold mark, say, being worth more than a silver crown. All told, because coppers are always pennies and golds never are, there are six different varieties of coin in use, with their exact relative values differing by country of origin.
* ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]'' has currency called "spheres", consisting of gemstones encased in glass. Value depends on the type and size of the gem (the spheres themselves are all the same size). The denominations (from lowest to highest) are "chips", "marks", and "broams", with emeralds being the most valuable stone and diamonds the least. Spheres infused with [[Mana|Stormlight]] (which [[Power Glows|makes them glow]]) are also more valuable because it's a guarantee that they're not [[Counterfeit Cash|counterfeit]]. (Infused spheres also make [[Mundane Utility|convenient]] sources of [[Fantastic Light Source|light]].)
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