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Anyone know what CURRENCY people use in the year 40k? I am starting up a mercenary marine force and was thinking that resources would probably be what they would fight for instead of cash but am interested in hearing what people have to say.

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On Necromunda Prime the Underhive trade using Guilder Credits, but there is also a credit system used throughout the rest of the Hive mentioned somewhere.

According to RT, the inhabitants of Terra have an electoo, which is a kind of sophisticated tattoo made of crytals which contain security details, social history and a credit system. This updates itself as the individual buys items.

I've also heard mention of Imperial Credits, which I presume are good on the majority of Imperial worlds, but whether it will override the local currency, or is an alternative form of payment because of it can be used more widely I am uncertain. I should imagine some worlds trade exclusively with this, whilst others only use it for trade outside of their own economy.

it would vary fom world to world but good ol' 'credits' are always a reliable option.

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Barring that you have local currencies (which I can't imagine mercenaries wanting to deal with) and goods and services. Things that work well as payment include the obvious things like food, fuel, ammunition, weapons, spacecraft, and real estate but also precious & semiprecious gems, valuable pharmaceutical materials (such as lifespan-enhancing drugs or vaccines to dangerous diseases), rare animals, legal documents, services, works of art, rare materials, slaves, salvage, electronics, luxury goods, or just about anything else concievable.

Looking at the miniatures, I'd guess skulls or severed heads.

Yeah, I was going to go with "knucklebones of saints" as far as cash currency goes.

Also, obviously, Orks use teef for money.

Teef are da best kind'a money!

Ill give ya two teef fer a shoota and six teef fer a klaw.

apparently you can just walk outside, and if your larger, beat the snot out of someone, and suddenly become richer.

rteef is the only one i know of... apart from yes the skulls and heads.
Bullets or at least threats maybe?*i will orbital strike your planet if...etc*

Credits for any Imperial planet, minus feral worlds... teef for da Orkes! Eldar are above money, unless you count books :haughty giggle:... Well Dark Eldar use treasure looted from the worlds they destroy. Tau have some form of monatary system that probably works like credits. Kroot take whatever they can, food, fuel, and weapons mostly.

Assault cannon bullets.

They use viral grenades, rad grenades, blind grenades, stasis grenades, psyk-out grenades, and vortex grenades.

That's why they aren't in the game any more, people use em as money now because they were so commonly available. Everyone and their brother had at least 3 to 100 of em at any given time since everyone was always at war. Of course with so much of the above currency floating around, inflation went berzerk within the short span of about 10 years and lo, it takes about 10 of the above just to buy a pack of gum from a vending machine. Makes perfect sense since according to Rogue Trader, grenades of all types are about the size of a quarter anyways. Now they aren't used in fighting any more, only for civilians and hive gangers to buy things like candy bars and dental floss and stuff.

What would you say each grenade is representative of in terms of each other.? (a rad grenade is worth 10 blind grenades, etc)

The only thing you can buy with a vortex grenade is a headache.

Hey hey, lets be fair here. Dark Eldar don't just use 'loot' for currency, but SOULS MUAHAHAHAHA! It makes sense, the whole 'the older I get, the more souls I need to devour to keep my own, because Slaanesh is one hungry dude/chick/it.'

Actually, many of Abnett's books, as well as a few other Black Library titles, give the standard currency as the Imperial Crown, though it is sometimes refered to as a Throne - in reference to its golden colour.

awesome so i can add loads of coins to my marines like thier riading a bank :tumbsup:

I've always used the Crowns as the main currency with different denominations having different names based on the iconography used.

in the planetstrike codex a misheard vox transmission in a dramatisation states "spend three or four pence, we're going to a dance" (actually send re-enforcements, we're going to advance) this means pence is still a commonly know currency in the imperium. otherwise the average guardsmen wouldn't know

I thought the general IoM currency was called Imperials or something like that.

Although Lexicanum sheds some grimdark on the subject.

There is no Monetary Union inside the Imperium. Worlds do not pay their tithes to Terra in coin, but rather in flesh, weapons and food - the consumables of war. On the planet of Necromunda, the currency in use is Credits. However, in most of the Gaunt's Ghosts novels, the guardsmen have 'pay' to spend, although the actual currency is never mentioned. It may be that guardsmen are given an amount of credit with which to buy luxury items.

Crowns/thrones are the currency most worlds use in the Calixis sector in Dark Heresy. There could be room for all sorts of local denomination currencies of course depending on where you are.

Slaves, guns and booze and then more slaves and maybe some nice hats

I always thought it was Thrones

The Imperium is so large it is hard to standardize a unit of currency but I have seen Thrones referred to a lot, especially in the Fantasy Flight RPGs (Dark Heresy, Deathwatch, Rogue Trader).

Everythiong is payed for....in blood!

Larger hats and even larger poldrouns


Being serious thrones.

CHAOS PAYS WITH SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE AND BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! (what else?)

"Thrones" are the currencey of the Imperium.

I concur with thrones, though I would imagine mercenaries would have to be fairly loose in what they take as payment if they are well traveled. The barter system is always a good one.

"okay, I'll clear out that mine for you, but you get to give my merc ship a new overhaul, AND copies of the latest imperial transponder codes."

In GG they call em crowns

just sayin.....

Lexx wrote:Crowns/thrones are the currency most worlds use in the Calixis sector in Dark Heresy. There could be room for all sorts of local denomination currencies of course depending on where you are.

Thrones are universal, as they were also used in the Cain books. Anywhere the Imperium rules accepts Thrones, but everywhere usually also has their own individual money as well.