>>5284510>>5284607At this point the economy would be crashing even if the royalty weren't staging a powergrab against the nobility and disrupting internal trade access. It would be prime time for the nation to begin trying to force a new currency forward less reliant on gold/minerals, or alternatively, minting the same visual coinage with less and less gold purity, eventually introducing other mineral (or non-mineral) denominations. A whole quest could be run purely on being a merchant trying to navigate La'Fiel's economic landscape during all of this, and I'd probably adore it
Spice & Wolf Quest! Let's go! but I do not trust myself to have the knowledge to run it consistently, or to any form of satisfaction.
So with the context for the national economy in place, we can return to the original question of how much is ten gold worth, and the answer is that, due to a lack of supply (Teranford/East Heaven), and a surge in demand (nobility and royalty both readying for war), the economy is undergoing a severe deflation, which means pure gold coins will dwindle in circulation and consequently their value will rise significantly. The royalty and/or individual territories may be in the process of trying to arrest this economic freefall by changing over currencies, but gold is, and always be, universally accepted.
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a piece of gold could probably be likened to between ~50-75 USD. It used to be worth quite a bit less and in the future it will be worth quite a bit more. For your knights, their pay is a matter of schrodinger's money, Most of their day to day needs are taken care of, but they don't really <span class="mu-i">receive</span> money, because up until recently, Irue's only source of money was the mayor's stash you secured back in the first arc... And that went mostly towards Carona.
As a result, what they're betting is most likely just the remnants of whatever savings they had managed to scrounge together and carry with them after being driven from their homes. How much each of them has will vary, but it's unlikely any of your knights have more than ~30-40 gold on them. The average is probably much closer to... Well, somewhere around ten. It'd run out in a month or two if they had to take care of their own needs.
