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@DaJa-rahrah they use copper because they don't care/know about inflation. The moment you step into paper bills/fiat currency:
1) You need a name to even start introducing it to the economy. Usually it's bonds(for gold coins), but nobody will look at a piece of paper and literally call it a coin. A government can't just proclaim a royal order that replaces the national currency and expect it to actually happen.
2) You wouldn't have thought of fiat currency in the first place if you didn't know about inflation and having lots of immovable money. Also banks, or at least a royal treasury, which means people educated in specifically money. All of that, with the possibility of someone else trying to counterfeit or introduce their own currency, and at no point someone would think: "our paper bills need a name to identify"?
Yes, copper/silver/gold is a handwave we accept from fantasy setting in general. It's just two extra steps of ridiculous(hence me calling it silly) to do it for paper bills as well. It's not exactly hard to call money gil or zenny or drachma.
1) You need a name to even start introducing it to the economy. Usually it's bonds(for gold coins), but nobody will look at a piece of paper and literally call it a coin. A government can't just proclaim a royal order that replaces the national currency and expect it to actually happen.
2) You wouldn't have thought of fiat currency in the first place if you didn't know about inflation and having lots of immovable money. Also banks, or at least a royal treasury, which means people educated in specifically money. All of that, with the possibility of someone else trying to counterfeit or introduce their own currency, and at no point someone would think: "our paper bills need a name to identify"?
Yes, copper/silver/gold is a handwave we accept from fantasy setting in general. It's just two extra steps of ridiculous(hence me calling it silly) to do it for paper bills as well. It's not exactly hard to call money gil or zenny or drachma.