Currency in the year 40k?

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**ChrisWWII**

I'm throwing my lot in with thrones. I've seen them referred to in Gaunt's Ghosts, Dark Heresy, and a lot of the RPG books. If references to 'thrones' are that widespread across the Imperium, then everyone probably accepts them. I get the impression that Imperial Thrones are made from precious metals, so it's a universally accepted currency. THere's probably some kind of system in place to exchange thrones into whatever the local currency is.

**jayjester**

I've heard credits and thrones.
The addition to this conversation is about what they look like. I'm sure in 40k they would look a bit different, but in the first HH novel, a poet (who I forgot his name) got smashingly drunk on a freshly reacquired world, not fully in compliance yet. He paid the bar with a bunch of plastic chits, noting that imperial money was good there now, required as part of the compliance.

**Wyrmalla**

In one of the Last Chancer's novels Kage discovers a stockpile of gold coins in an Inquisition storehouse. They aren't named, but seeing as they're owned by an off world power, it could be assumed that they're Imperial standard credits. Also in the Gaunts Ghosts novel, The Guns of Tanith, Thrones are discribed as having a romanisque style look, with the Emperor's head on one side and aquila on the other, (I think that they were gold too).

**KamikazeCanuck**

I've heard "Imperials" as well. It could be Thrones is a slang word like how we use "bucks" or even vice versa.

**ZacktheChaosChild**

The forces of Chaos use only Blood as currency. Only the taking of lives will get you anything.

In all seriousness, each planets seems to have their own currency system.

**Mordoskul**

The Imperium uses Throne Gelt. Note that is rather simmilar to the German word for money, 'Geld'.