Currency (Principia Moderni III Map Game)

Currency is a medium of exchage widely used for exchange and usualy backed up or endorsed by a governement, before (Date X) most currencies in the Principia Moderni III Universe were backed up by phisical gold, and some were simply worth their intrtinsic value. The

The (Venetian) Ducat
The Ducat, its name originating from "the Duke's coin" was a common name of the silver and gold coins of various states along the adriatic sea. It is not untill venice, a merchant city-state, started producing the Ducat in large and consistent(weight) ammounts, and that each coin was almost garanteed to have the same mass, that tradetrs started prefering the Ducat over the Florin as their prefered coin of choice around the (european) world. this new preference began in the early 1400s and ended in (year). By 1425, most traders in Europe used the Ducat, with many nations officialy or unofficialy started adopting the currency as official, due to the high reliability of the Venetian Ducat(i.e. one ducat will always weigh the same as another)

The (Pskovian) Zolotnik
IN order to greater preserve their independance, have more control over their economics and to increase the relevance of Pskov as a European center of trade and commerce, the Pskovian Veche, in 1432, passed a series of comprehensive reforms culminating in the creation of a national bank(along with the institutions for moneylending) and an official mint, along with their own currency to rival the reliability of the Ducat: The Zolotnik. The new currency introduced would be pegged to the new weights introduced in that year, with the new highest-value coin, the zolotnik(Also the name of the new weight) being worth the gold in 1.5 ducats(approx 5 grams). Using the equivelancy to the new weights and measures system, and the creation of a single mint(with subsidiaries), and the equivelancy to the new weights system, the pskovians hoped to increase the reliability of their currency for generations to come, and hope that many more nations adopt it.

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