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** Elves (at least in Cormanthyr) used yulthaari - "coins" (actually IOU notes / contract proposals) shaped as 5 inches long platinum tubes, with smooth outside surface and inside covered in tactile script. These were commonly used in auctions or among the nobility. This design ensures that [[Silent Offer|it's impossible to read anything from the outside]] even with eagle's eyes, thus allows to avoid both boastful use of wealth (which would be crass) and embarrassment (if you lose the bid). A third party will only see that one elf passed a yulthaari to the other, who stuck a finger in it and accepted or rejected - how much was offered and even for which goods the first was bidding is up to the rumours. |
** Elves (at least in Cormanthyr) used yulthaari - "coins" (actually IOU notes / contract proposals) shaped as 5 inches long platinum tubes, with smooth outside surface and inside covered in tactile script. These were commonly used in auctions or among the nobility. This design ensures that [[Silent Offer|it's impossible to read anything from the outside]] even with eagle's eyes, thus allows to avoid both boastful use of wealth (which would be crass) and embarrassment (if you lose the bid). A third party will only see that one elf passed a yulthaari to the other, who stuck a finger in it and accepted or rejected - how much was offered and even for which goods the first was bidding is up to the rumours. |
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== Video Games == |
== [[Video Games]] == |
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* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', the currency is meat, which [[Justified Trope|justifies]] its use of [[Money Spider]]. |
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', the currency is meat, which [[Justified Trope|justifies]] its use of [[Money Spider]]. |
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* ''[[Fallout]]'' uses bottle caps. They started out as literal caps off of bottles, but eventually evolved into normal money. |
* ''[[Fallout]]'' uses bottle caps. They started out as literal caps off of bottles, but eventually evolved into normal money. |
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