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Fictional currency is the currency used in works of fiction. It may be used in alternative worlds, eras, or realities. The use of "credits" is particularly common in futuristic settings, so much so that Sam Humphries has pointed it out as a cliché: "In any science-fiction movie, anywhere in the galaxy, currency is referred to as 'credits.'" [1] Credits are frequently envisioned as a form of electronic money. [2]
A fictional currency is some form of currency defined, or alluded to, in works of fiction. The names of units of such currency are sometimes based on extant or historic currencies while other names, such as "Kalganids" in Asimov's Foundation series, may be wholly invented. A particularly common type, especially in science fiction, is electronically managed "credits". In some works of fiction, exchange media other than money are used. These are not currency as such, but rather nonstandard media of exchange used to avoid the difficulties of ensuring "double coincidence of wants" in a barter system.
A currency, in the most specific sense is money in any form when in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use, especially for people in a nation. Under this definition, US dollars (US$), pounds sterling (£), Australian dollars (A$), European euros (€), Russian rubles (₽) and Indian Rupees (₹) are examples of currency. These various currencies are recognized as stores of value and are traded between nations in foreign exchange markets, which determine the relative values of the different currencies. Currencies in this sense are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance.
Sam Humphries is an American comic book and video game writer located in Los Angeles. He is also the co-host of DC Daily on the DC Universe streaming platform.
Work | Currency unit | Symbol |
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Aion | Kinah | Q |
Alex Kidd | Baum | |
Animal Crossing | Bell | |
Asheron's Call | Pyreal | |
Banjo-Kazooie | Note | |
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden | Neo-Shekel [3] | ✡ (the Star of David) |
Bayonetta | Halo | |
BioShock , BioShock 2 | Dollar, ADAM | |
BioShock Infinite | Silver Eagle | |
Blade Runner | Chin-Yen | |
Blades of Time | Soul | |
Bloodborne | Blood Echoes | |
Cabal Online | Alz | |
Cabals:The Card Game | Influence | |
Call of Duty: Black Ops | CoDP (Call of Duty Points) [4] | ¢ |
Various Capcom games | Zenny | |
Chibi Robo series | Moolah | M with two vertical lines through it |
Chronicles of Riddick series | UD (Universal Denomination) | |
Danganronpa | Monocoin | |
Dark Souls | Soul | |
DC Universe Online | Cash | |
Mark (PvP & PvE Gear) | ||
Influence (PvP Gear) | ||
Token (seasonal events) | ||
Deadly Rooms of Death series | Greckle | |
Destiny | Glimmer | |
Deus Ex series | Credit | ¢ in Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War . |
Devil May Cry series | Red Orb | |
Dofus | Kama | K with two horizontal lines |
Drakensang: The Dark Eye | Ducat (gold), Thaler (silver), Farthing (copper) | |
Dungeons and Dragons Online | Platinum, Shard | |
Dungeons and Dragons | Copper piece, silver piece, gold piece, electrum piece, platinum piece | cp, sp, gp, ep, pp |
The Elder Scrolls | Drake (before Third Era), Septim | |
Elite: Dangerous | Credit | CR |
Enter the Gungeon | Casings | |
Entropia Universe | PED | |
EVE Online | Interstellar Kredit | ISK |
Aurum | AUR | |
Fable series | Gold | |
Fallen London | Echo | € (similar to the Euro symbol, but italicised and with a single stroke across the centre to look more like a regular E ) |
Fallout series | Bottle cap, NCR dollar, Legion Denari, Legion Aureus, Pre-War money | |
Final Fantasy series | Gil | G |
Flyff | Penya | |
Fortnite | Vinder-buck | v (similar to a v, but with a blue and white circle around it) |
Forza series | Credit, Token | CR, TK |
Fragoria | Emerald, Gold, Sign | |
Fusionfall | Taro | |
Ghost of a Tale | Florin | |
Gladius | Dinari | |
God of War series | Red Orbs | |
Golden Axe Warrior | Horn | |
Gran Turismo series | Credit | Cr |
Halo series | Credit | cR |
Requisition Point (currency used in the online multiplayer modes, not in the narrative) | RP | |
A Hat in Time | Pons | |
Hollow Knight | Geo | |
Honor Harrington | (Manticoran) Dollar, Austin | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | Metal Shard | |
Kid Icarus series | Heart | |
Killing Floor 2 | Dosh | D with two horizontal lines |
Kingdom Hearts series | Munny | |
Kingdom of Loathing | Meat | |
Mr. Accessory | ||
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning | Gold | |
League of Legends | Silver Serpent, Golden Kraken, Securi | |
The Legend of Heroes series | Mira | |
Legend of Zelda series | Rupee | |
Lego video games | Studs | |
Lineage II | Adena | |
Maple Story | Meso | |
Mass Effect | Credit | |
Mega Man series | Zenny | Ƶ |
Megami Tensei series | Macca | ћ |
Metin2 | Yang | |
Metro series | Cartridge | Soviet 5.45x39mm rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridges |
Mia's Big Adventure Collection | Sparklies | Diamond-like pieces of cut glass and plastic |
Minecraft | Emeralds (formerly Rubies; used to trade with villagers) | |
Monster Hunter series | Zenny | z |
Mother 3 | Dragon Power | DP |
No More Heroes series | LB Dollar | LB$ |
The Ocean Hunter | unknown | |
Phantasy Star series | Meseta | A yellow diamond (a yellow triangle in earlier games) |
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice | Dahma | D with two horizontal lines |
Pikmin series | Poko | |
Pokémon series | Pokémon Dollar | ₽ |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series | Poké | |
Ragnarok Online | Zeny | Z |
Ratchet & Clank series | Bolts | |
Real Racing 3 | Real Dollars | R$ |
Resident Evil 4 | Pesetas | PTAS |
Resident Evil 5 | Nigerian Naira | ₦ |
Rift | Platinum | |
Gold | ||
Silver | ||
Credits | ||
Roblox | Robux (pegged at an exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 400 Robux) | R$ |
Rose Online | Zulie | |
RuneScape | Coins, chimes, pieces of eight, Runecoins, rusty coins, tokkul, trading sticks and others [5] | gp (for coins only - initialism for "gold piece") |
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri | Energy | |
The Sims series SimCity series (since SimCity 3000) | Simoleon | |
Sonic the Hedgehog series | Rings | |
Space Quest series | Buckazoid | bz |
Spore | Sporebuck | |
Starflight | Monetary Unit | M.U. |
Star Wars: Force Unleashed series | FP (Force Points) | |
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | Republic Credits | |
Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula | Shyneum Pennie | S.P. |
Story of Seasons series | Gold | |
Suikoden series | Potch | |
Super Mario series | Coin | |
Tales series | Gald | |
Terraria | Copper, Silver, Gold, Platinum | Coins |
Undertale | G | |
Wakfu | Kama | K with two horizontal lines |
War Thunder | Silver Lion, Golden Eagles | |
Warframe | Credits, Platinum | |
The Witcher series | Crown, Floren, Oren and others | |
World of Warcraft | Gold, Silver, Copper | |
X series | Credits | |
X-Blades | Souls | |
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX: Aim to be Duel King! | DP (Duel Points) | |
Zork | Zorkmid | |
Work | Currency unit | Symbol |
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Alastor | Ozol | |
The Chronicles of Narnia (Calormen) | Crescent | |
The Chronicles of Narnia (Narnia) | Lion | |
Crosstime Traffic | Benjamin, equal to 100 Dollars - a Dollar being a virtually worthless aluminium coin | |
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor | Wishes/Teeth | |
The Demon Princes | Standard Value Unit (SVU) | |
Discworld | Ankh-Morpork dollar (other regional currencies include the Lancre shilling, the Omnian obol, the Agatean rhinu, and the Ephebean talent) [6] | AM$ |
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Whuffie [7] | |
Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey | Pernese Marks | |
Dread Empire's Fall [8] | Zenith | |
Ender's Game series | Credit | |
The Foundation Series | Credit, Kalganids (second book) | |
Graustark | Gavvo | |
The Great Explosion and And Then There Were None | Ob (obligation) | |
Harry Potter series | Galleon (subunits: Sickle (1/17), Knut (1/493)) | |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Altairian Dollar, Flanian Pobble Bead, Triganic Pu (subunit: Ningi (1/8)) [9] ; Leaf [10] | |
Inheritance Cycle | Crown | |
Jame Retief novels by Keith Laumer | Galactic Unified Credits (GUC) | |
The Kingkiller Chronicle : Vintas | Halfpenny/Penny (2 Halfpennies)/Bit (2.5 Pennies)/Quarter Bit (2 Bits)/Round (8 Quarter Bits)/Royal (10 Rounds)/Haft (10 Bits)/Noble (2 Hafts)/Reel (2.5 Nobles)/Five Reel Piece (5 Reels) | |
The Kingkiller Chronicle : Ceald | Shim/Iron Drab (11 Shims)/Copper Jot (10 Drabs)/Silver Talent (10 Jots)/Gold Mark (10 Talents) | |
The Kingkiller Chronicle : Commonwealth | Iron Penny (3 Shims)/Ha'Penny (3 Iron Pennies)/Copper Penny (2 Ha'Pennies)/Silver Penny (10 Copper Pennies)/Common (12 Silver Pennies) | |
Left Behind | Nick | |
Lyonesse Trilogy | Copper Penny, Silver Florin (= 10 pennies), Gold Crown (= 10 florins) | |
Metro series | Cartridges | |
Mistborn | Imperials (boxons) > clips | |
Night's Dawn Trilogy and other novels set in Confederation Space (Peter F. Hamilton) | Jovian credit | |
Various Andre Norton SF novels | Credit | |
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville | Stivers, Shekels, Guineas and Nobles | |
Shardik , Maia | Meld | |
A Song of Ice and Fire (Westeros) | Gold Dragon (denominations: 1 Gold Dragon = 210 Silver Stags; 1 Silver Stag = 56 Copper Pennies; thus 1 Gold Dragon = 11,760 Copper Pennies) | |
Sprawl trilogy | New Yen | |
Tunnel in the Sky | Pluton | |
Valérian and Laureline by Pierre Christin | Bloutarks | |
Vorkosiverse (Lois McMaster Bujold) [11] | Barrayaran Marks, Betan Dollars, Felician Millipfennigs | |
The Wheel of Time | Penny, mark and crown [10] | |
World of Greyhawk Novels and RPG system by Gary Gygax | Iron Drab, Brass Bit, Bronze Zee, Copper Common, Silver Noble, Electrum Lucky, Gold Orb, Platinum Plate | |
Various World of Krynn fantasy novels | Steel Piece | |
Work | Currency unit | Symbol |
---|---|---|
The Adventures of Blinky Bill | Gumnuts | |
Avatar: The Last Airbender | Water Tribe Money (Water Tribes) and Gold, Silver, and Copper Pieces (Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation) | |
Batman Beyond | Credit | |
Bleach (Soul Society) | Kan | |
C | Midas Money | |
Cowboy Bebop [12] | Woolongs | ₩ |
Deadman Wonderland | Cast Points | |
Dragon Ball | Zeni | |
Fairy Tail [13] | Jewel | |
The Flintstones | Clam | |
Fullmetal Alchemist | Sen | |
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex | YES | ¥€$ |
Groo the Wanderer | Kopins | |
Hunter × Hunter | Jenny | |
Invader Zim | Monies | |
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? | Vals [10] | |
Kaiji | Perica | |
Kirby: Right Back At Ya! | D-Bill | |
KonoSuba | Eris | |
The Legend of Korra | Yuan | |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | Bits | |
My Little Pony Tales | Jangles | |
Naruto | Ryõ | |
One Piece [14] | Belly (Beri) | |
One Piece (Sky Island) [14] | Extol | |
Outlaw Star | Wong | |
Rick and Morty | Shmeckles | |
Blemflarks | ||
Flurbos | ||
RWBY | Lien | |
Space Dandy | Woolongs | ₩ |
Sugar Sugar Rune | Ecure | |
Sword Art Online | Col or Yul | |
Trigun [15] | Double dollars | $$ |
Zero no Tsukaima | Ecu |
Work | Currency unit | Symbol |
---|---|---|
Absolon | Time | |
The Adventures of Pluto Nash | Hilliarys | |
The Chronicles of Riddick | UD (Universal Denomination) | |
Demolition Man | Credit [36] | |
Escape from L.A. | Blueback | |
The Flintstones | Sand dollars | |
Guardians of the Galaxy | Units | |
Heavy Metal | Chronodollars ("Harry Canyon" segment); Zulacks ("Captain Sternn" segment) | |
In Time | Time | |
Judge Dredd | Cred | |
Spaceballs [37] | Space buck | |
Stake Land | Vampire teeth [38] | |
Star Wars [39] | Galactic credit standard | |
Street Fighter | Bison Dollars (pegged at an exchange rate of 1 Bison Dollar to 5 UK pounds sterling) | |
The Sword and the Sorcerer | Talons [10] | |
Total Recall | Credit | |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Simoleons [10] | |
Zootopia | Z | Z |
Work | Currency unit | Symbol |
---|---|---|
Cyberpunk 2020 | EuroDollar | Eb |
Dungeons & Dragons | copper, silver, electrum, gold, platinum pieces | cp, sp, ep, gp, pp |
Shadowrun | Nuyen | ¥ |
Warhammer 40,000 | Throne gelt | tg |