Currency of Westfort
Common Currency
Pence
Tiny copper coins used by laborers, dockworkers, taverns, and street vendors.
Usually worn smooth from circulation.
Many are punched with square holes so they can be strung on wire belts.
Silverlings
The common silver trade currency of Westfort.
Used by merchants, mercenaries, innkeepers, and craftsmen.
Most citizens count wealth in Silverlings rather than Pounds.
Guilders
Heavy gold trade coins originally introduced by merchant guilds and banking houses.
Guilders are trusted almost everywhere in the Olde Realm due to their purity and consistent weight.
Often engraved with city skylines, gears, and noble seals.
Pounds
Large reserve denominations used for banking, land purchases, military contracts, and noble transactions.
Rarely carried openly.
Usually represented by stacks of stamped bank notes, trade bars, or sealed vault markers.
Expanded Westfort Coinage
The Crown Series
Minted by the Royal Foundry of Westfort.
These are ornate industrial-era coins with milled edges and machine-cut precision.
Bronze Crowns
Middle-class coinage.
Common among officers, engineers, artificers, and successful tradesmen.
Often depict locomotives, factory towers, or military victories.
Gold Crowns
Prestige coins.
Lavishly detailed with noble heraldry, royal portraits, and cathedral engravings.
Many families keep them as heirlooms instead of spending them.
Platinum Marks
Extremely valuable reserve currency.
Used by banks, noble houses, military procurement offices, and high guildmasters.
Some contain tiny embedded slivers of Elementium as anti-counterfeit measures.
Industrial & Arcane Currency
This is where Westfort becomes uniquely itself.
Elementium Tokens
Machine-compatible trade tokens.
Used in:
transit engines
lift systems
automatons
arcane laboratories
industrial furnaces
dimensional devices
Many glow faintly blue or violet.
Some are partially crystalline.
Counterfeiting them is punishable by execution.
Rumors claim certain tokens can activate ancient devices beneath Westfort.
Rail Marks
Stamped iron currency used in worker districts and rail unions.
Heavy.
Greasy.
Practical.
Often hated by nobles but beloved by laborers.
Steam Scrip
Paper industrial vouchers issued by factories.
Technically legal only within company districts.
Workers often become trapped economically using them.
This adds a darker industrial horror element to Westfort.
Noble House Coinage
Certain powerful houses could issue private ceremonial currencies. Not officially legal tender everywhere—but influential enough to still circulate.
House Avallene Medallions
Black silver alloy coins with moon engravings and intricate clockwork patterns.
Beautiful and unsettling.
Some whisper the eyes on the coins subtly change position.
Rumored to occasionally appear in impossible places across dimensions.
Exactly the sort of coin Thomas Vane died holding.
Ancient and Obsolete Currency
Sun Guild Ducats
Pre-industrial gold currency from before Westfort’s machine age.
Still accepted due to purity.
Often found in ruins.
Thorn Pennies
Iron wartime coins from famine eras.
Jagged edges.
Almost worthless now.
Collectors love them.
Cathedral Seals
Massive silver temple coins once used by religious orders.
Some are dinner-plate sized ceremonial pieces.
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