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3	%% This was launched from the YKTTW 'Foreign Currency' (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=brn72dfp6pn35pjjg83jcop6&trope=CurrencyTropes), following suggestions there of a Currency Tropes page. Feel free to divvy the examples into their respective categories.
4	->''Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny --\
5	Have you ever tried to buy them without any money?''
6	-->-- '''Odgen Nash'''
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8	Tropes about coins and paper currency itself.
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11	!!Useful Notes:
12	* UsefulNotes/AmericanMoney
13	* UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney
14	* UsefulNotes/OldFrenchMoney
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16	!!Tropes:
17	[[index]]
18	* CastFromMoney: Skills that require money instead of Mana or health.
19	* CheapGoldCoins: In real life, gold coins were typically reserved for expensive transactions, with most people not handling them on a regular basis unless they were rich, and silver was the norm for coinage instead. Not so in fiction, where gold is so ubiquitous people carry sacks of coins wherever they go!
20	* ClamshellCurrency
21	* ColdCash: Hiding valuables (usually cash) in a freezer or refrigerator.
22	* CounterfeitCash
23	* CreditChip
24	* CurrencyConspiracy: Currency used as "proof" to TheConspiracy.
25	* CurrencyCuisine
26	* EnergyEconomy
27	* FictionalCurrency
28	* ForeignMoneyIsProofOfGuilt
29	* GoodBehaviorPoints: These can sometimes be used as a PracticalCurrency.
30	* GlobalCurrency
31	* GlobalCurrencyException
32	* HeadsOrTails: Flipping a coin to decide an action.
33	* HearMeTheMoney: Silver and gold coins (and to a lesser extent, paper banknotes) make a distinctive sound, and some can recognise it and how much of it there is simply by listening to the sound it makes.
34	* InflationNegation
35	* LivingCurrency
36	* MagicalCounterfeiting: Magically produced counterfeit cash.
37	* MoneySlap: Throwing cash into the face of another person, usually out of contempt or defiance.
38	* MoneyToBurn: Destroying cash (usually paper currency) to demonstrate wealth.
39	* MoneyToThrowAway: A character literally throws around their own cash.
40	* PiecemealFundsTransfer: Cybernetic funds are transferred gradually and the process can be seen on-screen.
41	* PracticalCurrency
42	* RareMoney: Unusual banknotes and coins that not many people are aware of, but are perfectly legal to receive and spend.
43	* RidiculousExchangeRates
44	* RidiculousFutureInflation: In the future, everything will be much more expensive.
45	* SolidGoldPoop
46	* StageMoney
47	* TastyGold: Someone bites into a gold coin to see if it is real.
48	* ToothFairy: A [[TheFairFolk (mostly)]] benevolent faerie that collects teeth from human children. (They'll usually give the children money for their teeth.)
49	* TreasureRoom
50	* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture
51	* WeirdCurrency
52	* WorthlessCurrency
53	* WorthlessYellowRocks: A culture who believe that money, gold, baubles and the like do not have any real value.
54	* ZillionDollarBill: Currency gets printed with larger values than you would ordinarily expect to see; ''usually'' a result of RidiculousFutureInflation, but not always.
55	[[/index]]
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