Talk:Currency/@comment-2000769-20190122104929

Why is "Mark" tied to silver on this wiki? I thoroughly searched gold, silver, floren, florin, oren, crown, noble and mark in Time of Contempt and Baptism of Fire in the official US kindle version and there is no connection between Mark and silver (or gold, for that matter).

I agree it’s clear that 60 floren/florin is struck from 1 pure Mark. For the 500 oren = 45 floren/florin to work in Baptism of Fire, it would make a lot more sense for floren/florin to be a gold coin, because medieval/older currencies were tied to metallic value (because you can melt the coin and create new ones). For 1 floren/florin to worth 10 orens, floren/florin either has to be usually big (or oren unusually small), or they are made of different metal. The big/small can’t work because floren/florin is already 1/120 of a pound and fairly small (you can search ebay to see the size of 1 oz silver coins and floren/florin is 1/8 of the weight of that and thus has to be 1/2 in diameter and 1/2 in thickness), and no one can use a coin that is 1/10 the size. Assuming oren is not copper (I would doubt Geralt saved princess Adda for 3000 copper coins), it will have to be silver and floren/florin has to be gold.