In A Parallel World With Random Skills, I Reluctantly Become A Mafia Boss?

Chapter 18: Currency

The other countries were named 'Haleven Empire' and 'Holy Country, Vanadis'. But it seemed Marielle-san didn't have any information about them since she never went there.

Next, I asked her about the most important thing at the moment, the value of money.

I currently had about, more than seven thousand gold coins the last time I checked, so I was hoping to at least have enough to continue living in prudence for a month or maybe more. But, what I heard surprised even me.

The breakdown of currency in this country, no, the entire world, was divided into three.

Copper Coins, Silver Coins, and lastly, Gold Coins.

All the countries used this as a means of trade, by all, I meant even the other races. Though, I doubt Elves had a use for currency when they live in forests hidden from the world. Well, that's just my preconceived notion on Elves due to video games, so I'm not entirely sure. I hope to meet one someday in the future, so I could ask.

Putting that aside, Copper Coins were the lowest valued coin, and Gold Coins were the highest. A Silver Coin was equivalent to one hundred Copper Coins. As one Gold Coin, was equivalent to a hundred Silver Coins.

The conversion rate was high. Being, Copper<Silver<Gold.

When I asked how much were the products and items circulated were, and to how much an average person makes a day, I felt as if I was tired.

It seems that an average family's income was 10 silver coins a month. That was for a family of four or less. For a single person, they would be lucky to get 1 silver coin a day.

Nobles were said to spend silver coins every day like they were water, but only the wealthiest nobles would choose to part with even a single gold coin.

Gathering all that information, if I converted this world's currency to Japan's, it would be:

1 Copper Coin = 10 Yen

1 Silver Coin = 1000 Yen

1 Gold Coin = 100,000 Yen

This meant that I had a shocking amount with me. An earth-shattering amount of more than 700,000,000 Yen. My eyes were spinning thinking of all the things I could buy with such a large amount of money.

How rich was that god of darkness supposed to be? Oh, right, he was a God after all.

People like that, had no need for trivial things such as money. I am thankful for that.

But it wouldn't be good to drown in greed, so let's spend my abrupt fortune wisely.

Still, all this fortune would be useless without knowing how to materialize even a single coin, so I subtlety ask Marielle-san to show me a Silver Coin as 'reference'.

When she agreed, she seemed to have been concentrating magic power for a second, and in the next, she snapped her right middle finger, and thumb together to make a crisp snapping sound. In the next moment, a dull shine of silver was reflecting the sun's rays ever so slightly in between her fingers.

I see. So that's it.

How could I have not seen it before. If I remember correctly, Elise-san also snapped her fingers before she lent me that one Silver Coin. I didn't pay attention to it before, but is that how you materialize currency in this world?

I would have wished for some kind of easy payment thing like a 'Credit Card' but it seems that wasn't the case. Well, it's not that difficult, so it's fine.

When I tried it for myself, I imagined one Copper Coin inside my consciousness, transferring from my total amount of currency, into my hand, and snapped.