1001 Curious Coins
No more "Um¸ it's just a bunch of coins..."; with 1001 Curious Coins to choose from¸ you'll be ready with unique coins any time you need them.Finding a collector who will pay a high price for some rare coin¸ or dealing with charges of counterfeiting after inadvertently trying to pass a bogus coin¸ can be adventures in themselves. The origin of some unfamiliar coin is a perfect hook to hang an adventure on.
1001 Curious Coins
The adventurers have spent days exploring the rugged lands on the far side of Deggur Pass¸ following clues on a half-burned map they found in an earlier treasure. Somewhere there¸ according to the map¸ is where the long-ago bandit chieftain Crannok hid the loot from a huge merchant caravan before he fell off a cliff escaping the Duke's soldiers. For over two hundred years¸ Crannok's lost treasure has been the stuff of tavern tales. So they search..
GM: Those goblins you that ambushed you¸ to their regret¸ didn't have much treasure. Some rusty weapons¸ mostly¸ and a handful of copper coins¸ pretty pebbles¸ and bits of junk.
Garin: I'm starting to think that Crannok was never real.
Kalthros: I'm starting to think that I'm not real. Let's look through this stuff and get moving.
Party Leader: We'll check the pretty rocks for magic while Garin is checks out the coins.
GM: There's nothing special about them. And aside from the coins¸ everything else is junk.
Garin: What do those coins look like?
GM: They're medium-sized¸ round copper coins. There's a crown on the front and a dragon on the back. Around the circumference on front is the name Tamatac the Great.
Lyry: The Great? Didn't everyone call him Tamatac the Fat?
Kalthros: Wait … Tamatac? I know that name. (closes his eyes for a moment¸ thinking) He was king when Crannok hid the treasure. Those goblins had to have found the coins somewhere nearby.
Jarmak: We must be getting close! And hey¸ can I have one of those coins? They must be lucky!
Welcome to the "1001 Things" collections
This is a list of descriptions of coins of all types. Here are coins of all sizes¸ shapes¸ and descriptions. If you're tired of identical copper¸ silver¸ and gold pieces¸ with nothing to distinguish them but the name¸ if all your coins are the same¸ here are 1001 that are most definitely not!
These descriptions list the size and shape of each coin¸ the type of metal it is made of¸ and when it was minted. Some of them have other attributes¸ such as being of interest to collectors¸ having some minor magic¸ or even being illegal to possess in some places. Some of them are counterfeit¸ making them illegal in a different and even more dangerous way. They can be handy for determining the age and origin of a hoard; it cannot¸ after all¸ be older than the newest coin. They can be used to give clues to things¸ such as our adventurers' coins from Tamatac's day¸ or perhaps dark elven coins in the possession of a spy.
Finding a collector who will pay a high price for some rare coin¸ or dealing with charges of counterfeiting after inadvertently trying to pass a bogus coin¸ can be adventures in themselves. The origin of some unfamiliar coin is a perfect hook to hang an adventure on.
No more "Um¸ it's just a bunch of coins..."; with 1001 Curious Coins to choose from¸ you'll be ready with unique coins any time you need them.