Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny —
Have you ever tried to buy them without any money?
Have you ever tried to buy them without any money?
— Odgen Nash
Tropes about coins and paper currency itself.
Useful Notes:
Tropes:
- Cast from Money: Skills that require money instead of Mana or health.
- Cheap Gold Coins: 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!
- Clamshell Currency
- Cold Cash: Hiding valuables (usually cash) in a freezer or refrigerator.
- Counterfeit Cash
- Credit Chip
- Currency Conspiracy: Currency used as "proof" to The Conspiracy.
- Currency Cuisine
- Energy Economy
- Fictional Currency
- Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt
- Good Behavior Points: These can sometimes be used as a Practical Currency.
- Global Currency
- Global Currency Exception
- Heads or Tails?: Flipping a coin to decide an action.
- Hear Me the Money: 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.
- Inflation Negation
- Living Currency
- Magical Counterfeiting: Magically produced counterfeit cash.
- Money Slap: Throwing cash into the face of another person, usually out of contempt or defiance.
- Money to Burn: Destroying cash (usually paper currency) to demonstrate wealth.
- Money to Throw Away: A character literally throws around their own cash.
- Piecemeal Funds Transfer: Cybernetic funds are transferred gradually and the process can be seen on-screen.
- Practical Currency
- Rare Money: Unusual banknotes and coins that not many people are aware of, but are perfectly legal to receive and spend.
- Ridiculous Exchange Rates
- Ridiculous Future Inflation: In the future, everything will be much more expensive.
- Solid Gold Poop
- Stage Money
- Tasty Gold: Someone bites into a gold coin to see if it is real.
- Tooth Fairy: A (mostly) benevolent faerie that collects teeth from human children. (They'll usually give the children money for their teeth.)
- Treasure Room
- We Will Spend Credits in the Future
- Weird Currency
- Worthless Currency
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: A culture who believe that money, gold, baubles and the like do not have any real value.
- Zillion-Dollar Bill: Currency gets printed with larger values than you would ordinarily expect to see; usually a result of Ridiculous Future Inflation, but not always.
