Monetari

Monetari are the standard currency of the city Monitor on the Serpent Isle.

Description
Monetari are accepted nowhere else, as the Serpent Isle lacks a central government and thus a single currency as well. Monetari are in many aspects like regular gold coins - a no-frills approach to a currency running along with the mentality of the inhabitants - but they are much thicker and therefore a good bit more valuable. This also makes them well sought-after as a currency. Monetari were the currency the pikemen in the Bull Tower did want from the Avatar; however, they did always raise their prices in a display of greed, meaning that only a gold bar fiinally satisfied them.

It is somewhat difficult to determine the exact value of a Monetari, but plate armour costs 350 Monetari, while ale costs 3 Monetari.  On Serpent Isle, the exchange rates are as follows:


 * 1 Monetari = 2 Gold Coins


 * 1 Monetari = 4 Filari


 * 1 Monetari = 3 Guilders

Trivia

 * Due to their worth, using the spell False Coin on a stack on Monetari in the most cost-efficient way to forge money. It also means out of the currencies Monatri hold the most worth at the same weight.
 * Monatari are important, since most of the good non-magical equipment and all of the training have to be paid with it.