Library Data:Imperial Currency
The basic unit of legal tender in the Imperium is the Imperial credit. Individual worlds may issue their own currencies, and those currencies may or may not be acceptable on other worlds. Similarly, corporations and megacorporations may issue scrip, and its acceptance outside of the corporate environment varies.[1]
Imperial credits are accepted everywhere in the Imperium and in many locations outside of it. The standard abbreviation is Cr, placed before the amount. In Solomani-influenced areas, it is not unusual to see the $ sign used. Imperial credits are almost impossible to counterfeit because of their unique method of manufacture. Plastic fibers are combined under high temperature and pressure and extruded as a rectangular bundle of great length. The different colored fibers form the pattern of the bill. The bills are not printed; their characters and design are created by the mixture of fibers used. The bundle is sliced to paper thinness, and a 14-digit alphanumeric (letter/number combination) is added for uniqueness. Bills are issued in Cr10, Cr20, Cr50, Cr100, Cr500, Cr1,000, and Cr10,000 denominations. Plastic coins, manufactured in a similar manner in various shapes, are issued in Cr0.25, Cr0.5, Cr1, and Cr5 denominations. Coinage in precious metals is limited to special commemoratives and collectors’ editions.[1]
Imperial credits can be bulky in large quantities. Bills measure 75 millimetres x 125 millimetres; 1,000 bills stand 50 millimetres high and weigh 500 grams.[1]
Other forms of money are common, both in Imperial credits and the currencies issued by worlds and large corporations. Checks, credit/debit systems (involving cards or other mechanisms), smart cards, and electronic systems of various sorts are all in use on various worlds. Interstellar exchanges of large amounts of money are accomplished by bank drafts and other financial instruments. These are essentially "checks" written from one large bank to another and involve extensive security procedures to prevent fraud. [1]
Repeated efforts to remove "paper" money from Imperial finances have all been thwarted by coalitions of various political and free-trade interests. [1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Loren Wiseman. GURPS Traveller Core Rules (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 27.
Other References
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- Loren Wiseman. Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 04 (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 5.
- Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. The Traveller Adventure (Game Designers Workshop, 1983), 142.
- Loren Wiseman. Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 24 (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 12.
- Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 22.
- Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 63.
- Colin Dunn. Library Data (Mongoose Publishing, 2011), 15-16.
- Matthew Sprange. Core Rule Book (Mongoose Publishing, 2016), 92.
- Christopher Griffen. The Third Imperium (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 4.