Duros vs. Dollars vs. Pesos vs. Escuditos
I just looked up a website: http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/money.html
It clearly states the names that people called money, especially the 8 reales or Spanish dollar. Also known as the pieces of eight!
So we have to choose from these names, which one we will use:
Duro
Peso
Dollar
Escudito
VOTE please!
(Sorry for original thread, you can read it if you have time to lose)
NOTE:
By the way, I already finished a Pesos mod.. but I can do it again if you guys REALLY want some other currency.
I'm also interested in what Officerpuppy will think of this, since all the credit goes to him for making the Pieces of Eight mod in the first place, and also for giving me all this inspiration.
*Added pieces of eight
Original Post:
It's up to you guys to choose..
It would be great if we could set-up some mod that could make us have multiple currencies..
Personally, I think Pounds are a little too much. I'll check some history records now.. but I think Shilling is the best way to go.. Five shillings were about a Piece of Eight.
NOTE:
If some of you tried Officerpuppy's pieces of eight mod, please tell me how you feel about it.
To Officerpuppy: I LOVE your mod, it really helped me do all this, all credit for my ideas on currency go to you.
However, I personally think that the word "pieces of eight" doesn't quite fit in the interface, it seems out of place or something.
I think a one-word currency should be employed (even if I supported the pieces of eight and thought it was a good idea) a since now I see that it just sounds like such a long currency to say and all.
ALSO, in POTC:COBP (First POTC movie), we clearly hear Jack being asked for a shilling to tie up his boat to the dock. He gives the guy three to bribe him.
In game, when you want to rent a bed, it's five "MONEY", let's say five "Shillings".. that could work, right? But five pieces of eight.. :eww
If you tought pounds.. I read somewhere that Sir Thomas Modyford was given some 1000 Pounds to start a plantation or something.
There, I got the quote from wikipedia about Modyford's story:
I got it all worked out:
Spanish currency: Pieces of Eight- worth 8 reales-worth.. ah I didn't look into that.
English currency: Pound- worth 20 Shillings - worth 12 pennies
About English currency:Libra is itself a Latin word for balance, when our currency was first formulated twenty shillings were made out of a pound of Sterling Silver, if the pound of Stirling Silver was placed on one end of a balance scales and 20 shillings on the other end and they will balance each other. Hence 20 shillings equal a Pound or Libra. If they put 12 pennies on one end of a balance scale and 1 shilling on the other and they will also balance out.
Sources:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/6260.php
http://www.17thcenturylifeandtimes.com/coins.html