Marafire Currency

Common Currency
Marafire has two levels of currency but only one official currency called the Nefi (lit. "silver") standardized to be enough to feed one Re for one day. One Nefi (1NF) is worth about 0.86 Colo. It is a 33g round silver coin and is the most common denomination of currency. Most products are sold in units worth 1NF.

Most Nefi in the east are produced in [TBD]. They are cold hammered to shape and stamped with a design specific to the mint.



Nefi in the west are produced at Ketauta. The western Nefi tend to have more intricate designs.



The Kami (lit. "bite") is a 3g small round coin used to buy small things or irregular amounts of goods. It is worth 1/10th of a Nefi. The Kami was born of necessity as people were literally biting off small pieces of their Nefi to make partial payments which lead to a large number of irregularly sized Nefi in circulation.



The Sanusiki (lit. "journey") is a 330g large round silver disk worth 10NF. These are rare and mostly ceremonial, but are also produced if needed to pay for bulk goods. The vast majority of Re will never see a Sanusiki.



Nefi and Kami are produced as whole rounds, and upon distribution a whole is punched through the center. This serves two purposes: the recipient of the coin can then string it onto a necklace for easy carrying; a portion of each coin is automatically removed and essentially returned to the state acting as a sort of tax.

The punched portions are reworked into new coins or formed into a [TBD]. The punches may be pounded flat and folded in over each other repeatedly until securely intertwined, then shaped into coins. The intricate designs pressed into the coins ensure the layers hold together. Coins or punches that have already been reworked too much and cannot be reformed cold are instead sent to [?] to be heated enough to soften which allows them to be recombined.

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Administrative Currency
The [TBD] is used on an inter-city and inter-province basis. It allows the cities, provinces, and state to conduct large scale business like paying for imports. The [TBD] is used to balance the books when redistributing goods between provinces and is an easier way to transport large quantities of silver for Nefi and Kami production.

The [TBD] is produced in varying sizes. Silver is melted in charcoal furnaces and poured into sand molds.