When is a Coin not a Coin?

 

I just bought Luke Gearing's Wolves Upon The Coast campaign which includes a draft of his forthcoming supplement  &&&&& Treasure . This is a series of tables for generating treasure hordes, and alongside the expected entries for potions, wands, artefacts, etc, there is a "coins" table. I've written before about my dissatisfaction with the way money is conceived of in RPGs. So Luke's table brought a smile to my face, as it presents coinage as something much more than just some ubiquitous anonymous...