List of fictional currencies

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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.

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Video games

WorkCurrency unitSymbol
Aion KinahQ
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 gamesZenny
Chibi Robo seriesMoolahM with two vertical lines through it
Chronicles of Riddick seriesUD (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 seriesGreckle
Destiny Glimmer
Deus Ex series Credit¢ in Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War . V in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Deus Ex: The Fall .
Devil May Cry seriesRed Orb
Dofus KamaK 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 piececp, sp, gp, ep, pp
The Elder Scrolls Drake (before Third Era), Septim
Elite: Dangerous CreditCR
Enter the Gungeon Casings
Entropia Universe PED
EVE Online Interstellar KreditISK
AurumAUR
Fable seriesGold
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 seriesGilG
Flyff Penya
Fortnite Vinder-buckv (similar to a v, but with a blue and white circle around it)
Forza seriesCredit, TokenCR, TK
Fragoria Emerald, Gold, Sign
Fusionfall Taro
Ghost of a Tale Florin
Gladius Dinari
God of War seriesRed Orbs
Golden Axe Warrior Horn
Gran Turismo series CreditCr
Halo series CreditcR
Requisition Point (currency used in the online multiplayer modes, not in the narrative)RP
A Hat in Time Pons
Hollow Knight Geo HollowKnightGeo.png
Honor Harrington (Manticoran) Dollar, Austin
Horizon Zero Dawn Metal Shard
Kid Icarus seriesHeart
Killing Floor 2 DoshD with two horizontal lines
Kingdom Hearts seriesMunny
Kingdom of Loathing Meat
Mr. Accessory
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Gold
League of Legends Silver Serpent, Golden Kraken, Securi
The Legend of Heroes seriesMira
Legend of Zelda seriesRupee
Lego video gamesStuds
Lineage II Adena
Maple Story Meso
Mass Effect Credit
Mega Man seriesZennyƵ
Megami Tensei seriesMaccaћ
Metin2Yang
Metro seriesCartridgeSoviet 5.45x39mm rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridges
Mia's Big Adventure Collection SparkliesDiamond-like pieces of cut glass and plastic
Minecraft Emeralds (formerly Rubies; used to trade with villagers)
Monster Hunter seriesZennyz
Mother 3 Dragon PowerDP
No More Heroes seriesLB DollarLB$
The Ocean Hunter unknown The Ocean Hunter currency sign.svg
Phantasy Star seriesMesetaA yellow diamond (a yellow triangle in earlier games)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice DahmaD with two horizontal lines
Pikmin seriesPoko
Pokémon seriesPokémon Dollar
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon seriesPoké
Ragnarok Online ZenyZ
Ratchet & Clank seriesBolts
Real Racing 3 Real DollarsR$
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 Simleon.svg
Sonic the Hedgehog seriesRings
Space Quest seriesBuckazoidbz
Spore Sporebuck Simleon.svg
Starflight Monetary UnitM.U.
Star Wars: Force Unleashed seriesFP (Force Points)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Republic Credits
Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula Shyneum PennieS.P.
Story of Seasons series Gold
Suikoden seriesPotch
Super Mario seriesCoin
Tales seriesGald
Terraria Copper, Silver, Gold, PlatinumCoins
Undertale G
Wakfu KamaK with two horizontal lines
War Thunder Silver Lion, Golden Eagles
Warframe Credits, Platinum
The Witcher seriesCrown, Floren, Oren and others
World of Warcraft Gold, Silver, Copper
X seriesCredits
X-Blades Souls
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX: Aim to be Duel King! DP (Duel Points)
Zork Zorkmid

Literature

WorkCurrency unitSymbol
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 NoneOb (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 : VintasHalfpenny/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 : CealdShim/Iron Drab (11 Shims)/Copper Jot (10 Drabs)/Silver Talent (10 Jots)/Gold Mark (10 Talents)
The Kingkiller Chronicle : CommonwealthIron 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 seriesCartridges
Mistborn Imperials (boxons) > clips
Night's Dawn Trilogy and other novels set in Confederation Space (Peter F. Hamilton)Jovian credit
Various Andre Norton SF novelsCredit
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 novelsSteel Piece

Animation

WorkCurrency unitSymbol
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 Fairy Tail-Jewel Symbol.png
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) Berrysymbol.gif
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

Television

WorkCurrency unitSymbol
The Adventure Game Drogna
Babylon 5 [16] Credit
Battlestar Galactica Cubit cb
Farscape [17] [18] Credits, Brandar Tiles
Farscape (Scarren) [19] Crindars
Farscape (Uncharted Territories) [20] [21] Fennik, Kretmas
Firefly Credits
Herman's Head Brain buck
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (Zangyack)ZaginZ with two horizontal lines
Killjoys Joy [22]
The Office Schrute Bucks, Stanley Nickels
Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy Zanibitar
Red Dwarf [23] Dollarpound
Regular Show (Season 8)Space Credits
seaQuest DSV (United Earth Oceans) UEO Credits
South Park [24] Parsohn (of space cash)
Star Trek (Bajor) [25] Lita
Star Trek (Cardassians) [26] Lek
Star Trek (Ferengi) [27] Latinum (Bricks, bars, strips, slips) [28]
Star Trek (Karemma) [29] Dirak
Star Trek (Klingons) [30] Darsek
Star Trek (Mari) [31] Renn
Star Trek (Takar) [32] Frang
Star Trek (Triskelion) [33] Quatloo
Star Trek (United Federation of Planets) [34] Federation credit
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dimension X Dollar [35]
Terra Nova Terra

Film

WorkCurrency unitSymbol
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 AurebeshSans-Serif credit(1).png
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 ZZ

Role-playing games

WorkCurrency unitSymbol
Cyberpunk 2020 EuroDollarEb
Dungeons & Dragons copper, silver, electrum, gold, platinum piecescp, sp, ep, gp, pp
Shadowrun Nuyen¥
Warhammer 40,000 Throne gelttg

References

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  2. Gliddon, Gerald (2005). The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy, Volume 2. Greenwood. p. 532. ISBN   0-313-32950-8.
  3. "Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (Video Game) - TV Tropes". tvtropes.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  4. This virtual currency is used solely with the online multiplayer mode.
  5. Many other currencies exist. The listed items have the function of currency in the story of the game world, except Runecoins which are a semi-in-game currency that can be bought with real world money. Many of the in-game currencies have limited uses and are not interchangeable. Similarly due to game limitations certain fixed value items are used as currency proxies.
  6. http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Rhinu
  7. A Handy Currency Converter For Alien Money , iO9
  8. "Walter Jon Williams, Dread Empire'S Fall, "The Sundering"". Stamnes.com. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  9. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Acc.umu.se. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FictionalCurrency
  11. Lillian Stewart Carl and John Helfers, The Vorkosigan Companion, Baen Books 2008, ISBN   978-1-4391-3379-8
  12. Keiko Nobumoto, COWBOY BEBOP - SESSION #1 - ASTEROID BLUES, SUNRISE · BONES · BANDAI VISUAL, 1998 (transcript)
  13. Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 103, Page 4
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  15. Trigun Encyclopedia, retrieved 19 June 2011
  16. B5TECH - Glossary, accessed 10 Nov 2011
  17. Archived: http://www.farscape-1.com - Credits, 11 Oct 07
  18. Archived: http://www.farscape-1.com - Brandar Tiles, 11 Oct 07
  19. Archived: http://www.farscape-1.com - Crindars, 11 Oct 07
  20. Archived: http://www.farscape-1.com - Fennik, 11 Oct 07
  21. Archived: http://www.farscape-1.com - Kretmas, 11 Oct 07
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  23. "Red Dwarf series I Writing". www.reddwarf.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
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  25. Star Trek: Deep Space 9, "Necessary Evil" (transcript)
  26. Star Trek: Voyager, "Caretaker" (transcript Archived 2013-03-27 at the Wayback Machine .)
  27. Drexler, Doug; & Sternbach, Rick; & Zimmerman, Herman (1998). Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual. Pocket Books. ISBN   0-671-01563-X. p. 63
  28. In the fourth season DS9 episode Body Parts it is stated that 500 bars = 10,000 strips = 1,000,000 slips (or 1 bar = 20 strips = 2,000 slips). The conversion rate between bricks and bars, however, was never definitively established.
  29. Star Trek: Deep Space 9, "The Search, Part I" (transcript)
  30. Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Firstborn" (transcript)
  31. Star Trek: Voyager, "Random Thoughts" (transcript)
  32. Star Trek: Voyager, "False Profits" (transcript)
  33. Star Trek, "The Gamesters of Triskelion" (transcript)
  34. Star Trek, "The Trouble with Tribbles", Season 2, episode 13 (transcript)
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