Coyn

Coyns are one of the rare artifacts more commonly recovered from Ancient sites.

• Among the most common of these rare items are coyns, small disks of metal engraved with various symbols.
• They typically come in sets, although varying types and numbers of coyns within the sets, are common, there is a rough consensus of what a typical set looked like.

Library Data Referral Tree

Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Droyne Social Hierarchy:

• Culture
  • Coyn
  • Dreskay
  • Oytrip
  • Tyafelm

Description (Specifications)

Their specific purpose is unknown.

• It may be that the objects served as money, jewelry, psionic focuses, or for some other unknown purpose.

Common Droyne Coyns

Droyne Coyns
Row	Column-1	Column-2	Column-3	Column-4	Column-5	Column-6
Row-1	Worker (Aydih)	Warrior (Aydin)	Drone (Aydirsoth)	Technician (Ayssath)	Sport (Praytsirv)	Leader (Aykrusk)
Row-2	Void	Soil	Air	Gas	Water	Fire
Row-3	Darkness	Cold	Noise	Signal	Heat	Light
Row-4	Humaniti	Vargr	Aslan	Droyne	Hiver	Centaur
Row-5	Genesis	Aspiration	Sacrifice	Defeat	Death	Achievement
Row-6	Beast	Mercenary	Voyages	Justice	Chance	Phoenix

History & Background (Dossier)

Original coyns have been found in various precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, iridium, monadium, and even uranium. Sets range in size from six to thirty-eight pieces and are considered desirable to museums throughout the Imperium. Each coyn has a scrap value of Cr400 (if gold); to a museum, the value is closer to Cr4000.

Copies of sets of coyns are often made of aluminum, lead, or zinc, and are more frequently encountered from unscrupulous merchants or traders. Such fake coyns have a value of about Cr20 each.

Ancients/ Droyne Connections?

In addition to the Ancients-derived coyn sets, sets are associated with Droyne communities (called koynisin), and have been so for at least 75,000 years. These more modern coyn sets are used in numerous Droyne ceremonies.

• Sophontologists have found similarities between the symbols on the Ancients-derived coyns, the older Droyne coyns, and the modern coyns used by oytripin. The symbols on the coyns have changed over time, both when representing the same concept, and when symbols have been added or removed.
• The modern coyn set contains thirty-six different symbols, the Ancients are assumed to have had thirty-eight, and the old sets have some intermediate number between thirty and forty-two.

References

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Twilight's Peak (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 12-13, 25, 40, 42-43, 59.
• J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, John Harshman. Droyne (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 9.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 21.
• Marc Miller. Referee's Companion (Game Designers Workshop, 1988), 54.
• Mike Jackson. Third Imperium 08 (Galaxy Games, 1988), IBC.
• Loren Wiseman. GURPS Traveller Core Rules (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 26.
• Dave Nilsen, David L. Pulver, Andy Slack, David Thomas. Alien Races 3 (Steve Jackson Games, 2000), 70.
• Martin Dougherty. Aliens of Charted Space Volume 2 (Mongoose Publishing, 2020), 151, 206.