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Trade Goods

You can’t eat money, and all wealth is eventually measured in commodities, luxuries, and trade goods. Local shortages, surpluses, trade embargoes, and treaties may shift values, but the following trade goods table shows the value of many commonly exchanged goods.

Table: Trade Goods

Cost

Goods

1 cp

1 lb. of wheat

2 cp

1 lb. of flour or one chicken

5 cp

1 lb. of salt

1 sp

1 lb. of iron

1 sp

1 square yard of canvas

5 sp

1 lb. of copper of 1 square yard of cotton cloth

1 gp

1 lb. of ginger or one goat

2 gp

1 lb. of cinnamon or pepper, or one sheep

3 gp

1 lb. of cloves or one pig

5 gp

1 lb. of silver or 1 square yard of linen

10 gp

1 square yard of silk or one cow

15 gp

1 lb. of saffron or one ox

50 gp

1 lb. of gold

500 gp

1 lb. of platinum

100 gp

1 lb. of cold iron

1,000 gp

1 lb. of adamantine

1 gp

1 lb. of bronze

2 sp

1 square yard of leather

750 gp

1 lb. of mithral

50 gp

1 gram of diamond dust