Currency

A brief explanation of the money and currency used in DDO.

The coin system uses a simple 10:1 rule for converting money. The following shows the types of coins used and their relative value:
 * 1 platinum = 10 gold = 100 silver = 1000 copper

Note that when receiving money from a vendor, your money will not automatically convert to the largest coin possible (if you receive 500 gold, it will not become 50 platinum). However, when you are buying items it will use the lower value coins first and will automatically convert to make change from a larger coin if you don't have enough of the smaller coin (if an item costs 9 gold and you only have 5 gold coins, it'll break a platinum and give you the remainder back in gold).