How should we call our currency ?

[Epistax]

As a reference to Moo2, the units of cash are BC.. BILLION credits. Think about how much one gold coin in civ 3 actually buys. If you have a gold coin, you're pretty rich. That's enough to retire and live off the interest nicely. Maybe that's about $1 million USD (hehe random guess).

Therefore IMHO gold coins should show someone's ultimate wealth.

[Panag]

hi ,

, sounds all good , ....

now , what shall the dominations be , ....

maybe like

coins notes

1 cent 5 apo's
2 cent 10 apo
5 cent 20 apo
10 cent 50 apo
20 cent 100 apo
50 cent 200 apo
1 apo 500 apo
2 apo 1000 apo
5 apo 2000 apo

a,d when inflation comes we can always print 10000 apo

but the above is all good , BUT , we need a central bank , ....

and who is going to be the mint , ....
and who is going to be the treasurer , .....

, maybe we should ones in a while make special coins , like when we kick abe behind , to remember the fact , .....

allas , have a nice day

[Spiffor]

Panag : I think the minister of the economy can be central banker, mint, whatever you call it. After all, he doesn't have much power gamewise at least for now), and can have time to be central banker.
Issuing special coins is a good idea, for special events. I think Abe's crushing defeat will be an excellent event to immortalize with a coin

But I don't exactly get what you mean with "cents". Is that a new name for a coin (a voin labeled "1 Cent" is worth 5 coins labeled "1 Apo" ? ).
In this case, I have to disagree with you. As I said earlier, names coming from RL displease me much. I mean, we're here to create, not to imitate.

[Spiffor]

BTW, I will suggest a complete project poll in less than 5 hours.

The poll will be labeled so :

Here is the poll regarding the name of our currency.

The Ministry of the Economy suggests :
- A bronze coin will be called "Apo" (plural "Apos"), and will be roughly worth a banana.
- An iron coin will be called "Dankos" (Plural "Dankos"), and will be worth 10 Apos.
- A gold coin will be called "Lyton" (plural "Lytons"), and will be worth 100 Dankos, i.e 1,000 Apos.

Question is : do you accept the following names for our currency ?
Answer : Yes / No

The poll will expire in 3 days

This is how I could write it. However, if you have ideas or points to make, I could adapt this poll, to make it better (especially if you come up with a better name for the Dankos).

To reply to Captain's point about conversion rates :
I thought about what you said. But if we have 100 Apos for a Dankos (10,000 Apos for a Lyton), it will mean people will earn roughly 80 bananas a day... And our people are far from being that rich.
I really like the 1 Apo = 1 banana conversion, because it will be more convenient for people, and will satisfy some banana-partisans.

[Shiber]

Imprinting special coins is indeed a wonderful idea. We should have someone design coins and medallions whenever our civilization reaches a milestone.

[Sirotnikov]

yay
more deisgn

[Shiber]

I suggest that the one Lyton coin will be imprinted with Sirotnikov's avatar.
(it's our school's logo)

[Spiffor]

Shiber :
Good idea. I like it. Now, we should probably get rid of the writing (it's not our alphabet)

[Sirotnikov]

Spiff - what is our alphabeth?

What's wrong with hebrew?

[Spiffor]

Since we are officially Egyptians, I'd say we should go for Egyptian Alphabe. OR, given that the official language of Apolytonia is English, we should go for latin alphabet, for the sake of simplicity (also, our alphabet waws bought from the Brits)

[Spiffor]

Siro : but if you want to design coins, please do so. In 3 days, if the poll I'm about to setup wins, I'll also choose a design among those which were suggested. If your school-logo looks cooler with Hebrew writings (and is more appreciate by the public), then Hebrew will figure on our coins .

[GePap]

Not to sound dictatorial or anything spiffor, but even if the poll looses, I think you should ask Donal to name the currency something- now that we have it, it can't go unnamed for too long, and honestly, I don't think anyone anywhere ever actually voted for the name of their national currency (as a transnational one, the Euro doesn't count), so I think the Minister of Economy has the power to just name it, period.

[Kuciwalker]

Let's use the ENGLISH (or is it called the latin?) ALPABET. Everyone here knows it, and not everyone (most people? quite possibly) here knows other alphabets.

[GhengisFarb™]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
Banknotes (also termed spiffors) should feature the avatars of our presidents or something.

But that comes only with pritning press.

I agree, unfortuanately I don't have a 3d model of any or our presidents or ministers.

I got: a gorilla, an eagle(you could call the coin an Eaglot, maybe a half-Eaglot, Smaller coins could be hawks or sparrows), a horse, a polar bear, some Egyptian and Medieval stuff. Any ideas you got for that and I can make a graphical sample for you.

[OPD]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
Banknotes (also termed spiffors) should feature the avatars of our presidents or something.

Also I don't think we should use the decimal system as were still quite a young civ we could change our number system to a base 12 instead.

Don't hate me but;
IMHO the endless banana joke is getting a bit old.