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 Melza (and the Barony by extension) draw the majority of their wealth from trade, manufacturing and services. Both legal and //illegal// trade has been the undisputed lifeblood of The City for many centuries, virtually since time immemorial. Businesses are plentiful in virtually every part of the city, and the other nine outlying municipalities as well. They pop up, some die off early, some grow and blossom, some even expand considerably, some reach their pinnacle early, some after decades of hard work and previously failed attempts. Sooner or later, they all wither and wane away, making way for successors or new generations of businessmen and business practices. As Aporue evolves over time, so does the nature of production and commerce in good ol' Melza as well. Consider the following overviews as just a small sample of the complex world of small-scale and large-scale economics in The City and the Barony.
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+==== Monetary units ====
+Along with other symbols of nationhood, the people of Melza (or the ruling classes, at the very least) pride themselves in their long-lived and ever evolving currency. At the moment, the Melzan states issues and uses golden, silver and copper coins for everyday transactions and trade. There are some early bird examples of banknotes, but there are used almost exclusively in banking and financial institutions. Melza's monetary units are not decimalised, and conversion between different amounts of coins is therefore more complex than the simpler transactions seen in real world modern day coinage and banknotes.
+Melzan coins are universally called **griffins**, in reference to the traditional supporters seen in Melza's full coat of arms. (As a professional thief, you'll be regularly hearing from your bosses or bidders to secure this or that sum of griffins during a heist, in addition to other potential loot.) All current Melzan coins, in the city itself as well as its surrounding countryside, feature a single example of this upright heraldic griffin on their reverse (back side). The obverse (front side) features different motifs, which vary depending on the metal and monetary value.
+Griffins are subdivided into **golden baronats**, (colloquially "nats"; not be confused with baronets and roughly equivalent to real world [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducat|ducats]]), **silver thalers** (originally called "groshen" or "groats", the names are still used colloquially) and the humble **copper hellers**. Golden coins are the most valuable and least common, with silver ones more common and copper ones predictably the commonest of all. Due to the non-decimalisation of Melzan currency (and much of Aporuean currency in general), the exchange rates of coins are not neatly based on tens. E.g. 1 baronat //does not// divide neatly into 10 thalers. Currently, 1 baronat is worth some 7 thalers or 84 hellers. 1 thaler is in turn worth 12 hellers. (A single thaler is often simply dubbed "a dozen", with 6 hellers being referred to as a "half-thaler".)
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 //The Owl//
+//The Jauncing Hucul// - maybe in Atrav or in Jáh
 //Shaking Axe Pub//