Favourite fictional currency?

[Bestival]

Rai Stones:

"Rai, or stone money, are large, circular stone disks carved out of limestone formed from aragonite and calcite crystals.[2] Rai stones were mined in Palau and transported for use to the island of Yap, Micronesia. They have been used in trade by the locals and are described by some observers as a form of currency."

So basically giant fuck off rocks... Try and steal that, Robin Hood! You stocking wearing little forest tit!

 

[Kilroy17]

Hats from Team Fortress 2, shhhhhhh totally counts. I mean when going to the shops who wouldn't want to rather wear multiple hats on their head than carry money in a wallet? A-ha-ha! You are as PRESUMPTUOUS as you are POOR and IRISH. Tarnish notte the majesty of my TOWER of HATS.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

Capcom's Zenny for its awesome design.

Either that, or Fallout's caps.

 

[Zantos]

I really like the Moolah from the Oddworld games. It's just a really fun word to say, particularly in The Stranger's accent. Moolah. Moo-lah.

Also the arrowheads from Psychonauts. "They buried their dead here?" "No silly, they buried their arrowheads here!"

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Bullets in Metro. It just makes sense. After the end of the world, gold is just a mostly useless, pretty, very heavy metal. Bullets will always be useful.

So yeah, bullets are the best currency. What better way to pay for something than with the capacity to efficiently murder things?

Food? Clothes?

Yes, but you can get food and clothes for free if you have bullets.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

Rupees. I like my money to look like pirate swag. I'd carry it around in a hollowed out baby octorock.

 

[ItsNotRudy]

Bullets in Metro. It just makes sense. After the end of the world, gold is just a mostly useless, pretty, very heavy metal. Bullets will always be useful.

So yeah, bullets are the best currency. What better way to pay for something than with the capacity to efficiently murder things?

Food? Clothes?

Yes, but you can get food and clothes for free if you have bullets.

But if you need to use them, you're effectively burning your currency.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Bottlecaps, won my heart really. Well I know they switched to paper money after Fallout 1, but still, having bottlecaps as cash was just so novel

 

[Lonewolfm16]

I like the gold from Adventure Quest, not because it's cool on its own, but because of their wealth distribution system. The one ranger girl is quite proud of how she steals from people and gives money to monsters.

How do you think this dumb son of a ***** got 200 bucks?

That's almost ingenious it's silliness, an in universe reason for monsters dropping pocket change! Someone tell Peter Molonenyu!

On topic: Rupees, mainly because they're precious gems, so all my money is pwetty-full.

Adventure Quest is big on the, "Silly ingenious" sort of thing.

It's like how they explain your ability to fight a monster underwater for hours, because ages ago there was an industrial accident and millions of gallons of water breathing potions were infused with the sea, infecting the hydrosphere, leading to all water being breathable.

Now the question is, why make that much water breathing potion? Hoping to move all of humanity underwater at some point?

 

[TomPreston]

LLamas. From nerdfighteria's Minecraft server.

 

[Caiphus]

Credits, from every sci-fi game ever.

Or groats, from the Destructoid podcast [footnote]http://podtoid.wikia.com/wiki/Groats[/footnote]

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Souls. Improve your stats, buy things, upgrade your weapons, redistribute your power among others or continue the Age of Fire, so versatile. And they even make themselves obvious when you misplace them!

 

[HanFyren]

Groats (spelling)
A currency that sometimes pops up in Jim Sterlings stories/ideas on podtoid.

 

[Rainforce]

ANY fictional currency?
I obviously go with the Triganic Ningi [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy], a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side.
Sadly, they're not very tradable or negotiable, based on that the galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.

EDIT:

Spoiler: actually found the image, yay

 

[Jandau]

Meat from Kingdom of Loathing. Yes, actual meat, it's not a slang word in the game universe. As an added bonus, regular currency such as gold or diamonds is considered worthless. God, I love that game...

 

[Fluxlunanos]

I would have to go with the Goth from the old Ogre Battle games (64, Tactics ogre). Given the fact that we NEVER actually see them or hear about them I like to think that the currency is in fact actual goths, of the mid 90s popularity. But as to how one would keep a large group of what I think are the ancestors of emos and use them as currency is beyond me. Still amusing to me however.

 

[pyrosaw]

Caps in Fallout just have that Atompunk feel to 'em. Also, echoes from Echo Bazaar, if anyone still plays that game.

 

[Roxor]

Considering that no currency has any inherent value, any currency could qualify.

If it has to actually be part of a work of fiction, I think I'll give the answer of Bits, from My Little Pony, if only for the confusion factor which will arise once the ponies get widespread computers.


Solvemedia: think green
Yes, combating climate change will indeed save money.

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

Considering that no currency has any inherent value, any currency could qualify.

If it has to actually be part of a work of fiction, I think I'll give the answer of Bits, from My Little Pony, if only for the confusion factor which will arise once the ponies get widespread computers.

Just to make things interesting: A colleague of mine on another message board actually calculated the exchange rate of dollars to bits. What he...

No...an Equestrian bit is NOT worth 12.5 cents. We are not equating a Bit to the "two bits" we used to call the quarter. Pay attention please.

What he came up with based on various exchanges within the show is that the Bit would be approximately worth around $4.75, or close to $5 per bit. So, if a "shave and a manecut" WAS two Bits, it would be about $9.50...which actually does work as I've seen haircuts close to that price at various Cost Cutters and other such places.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

You know there is an actual currency called bits right?

Now worth $104.7