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Imperial Currency...Today on SHDC...

The Hinterworlds Rambler

The Hinterworlds Rambler

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My Lords...

I have taken a first attempt at rendering two notes of Imperial Currency, the 100 Credit Note, and The 1000 Credit Note, what?

Notes, you say? Yes confound it, notes! Yes, they look like Terran money slightly... Yes... but these representations are intended as a prop or vehicle for the industrious referee... many of you use all Electronic Currency in your campaigns, and it makes perfect sense, but where's the fun in robbing a bank or swiping a suitcase full of Chips, I ask you...

But I digress, Lords... Please have a look at them, they are in the Pictures Section on Page 2 of "Iconography" and let me know what you think...

http://groups.msn.com/SidurHaskiDesignConsortium
 
Very nice my good Baron. Peter trevor has something similar on his StuffOnline site:
Imperial Currency

He says that he developed his as player handouts ... which is interesting, but far too much work for me!

Any chance of you creating some stuff on request? I'd particularly like your take on Star Legion uniforms ... if you're interested shoot me an email at angus (at) falkayn.com. Replace the (at) of course.
 
And Hats off to Mr. Trevor for his awe inspiring site! Such detail work makes leaving my home sector off the map forgiveable...hehehe

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Originally posted by Baron Saarthuran:
And Hats off to Mr. Trevor for his awe inspiring site! Such detail work makes leaving my home sector off the map forgiveable...hehehe

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Peter's stuff is very good, but then he's had that site around longer than yours, so there's room for catchup! (or is that ketchup
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As for the Hiver symbol, I'm only using it because it's the closest thing to the Julian Protectorate symbol that I could find in the symbols list.

I'll get the uniform stuff to you ASAP. Thanks!
 
Originally posted by Baron Saarthuran:
My Lords...

I have taken a first attempt at rendering two notes of Imperial Currency, the 100 Credit Note, and The 1000 Credit Note, what?
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Complete and utter nitpick. The serial number is supposed to be a 14 digit alphanumeric combination, not the 10 digit number you have on your examples.
 
Originally posted by tjoneslo:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Baron Saarthuran:
My Lords...

I have taken a first attempt at rendering two notes of Imperial Currency, the 100 Credit Note, and The 1000 Credit Note, what?
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Complete and utter nitpick. The serial number is supposed to be a 14 digit alphanumeric combination, not the 10 digit number you have on your examples. </font>[/QUOTE]IIRC this comes from the description of Imperial credit notes in The Traveller Adventure, right?

One seldom realized fact is that because of the manufacturing process, Imperial credit notes have no reverse. Or rather, the reverse is an exact mirror image of the obverse.


Hans
 
I went by this Description found on a Library Data site...

"Currency, Imperial
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 is a matter of conjecture. But Imperial credits are accepted everywhere in the Imperium and many locations outside of it.
Imperial credits are almost impossible to counterfeit because of their unique method of manufacture. Plastic fibres are combined under high temperature and pressure and extruded as a rectangular bundle of great length. The different coloured fibres form the pattern of the bill. It is not printed but actually made a part of the structure of the note. The bundle is sliced into paper thinness, and a 14-digit alphanumeric is added for uniqueness.
Credit bills are issued in 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1000, and 10000 credit denominations. Plastic coins, manufactured in a similar manner in various shapes, are issued in quarter (a quart), half (a demi), one, and five (a bec) credit denominations.
Imperial credits can be bulky in large enough quantities. Bills measure 75 x 125 millimetres; 1000 bills stand 50 millimetres high and weigh 500 grammes. "

I don't know if it is discernable in the examples... but I went for this by using varied and repeated geometric lines in different colors... There should be a reverse side soon...
Should it have a Building on it , I wonder?... Perhaps a starship...

Im curious sir, Where do you get the fourteen digit serial number from?
 
Originally posted by Baron Saarthuran:
I went by this description found on a Library Data site...
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That's the one from "The Traveller Adventure". AFAIK it is the sole canonical description.

Plastic fibres are combined under high temperature and pressure and extruded as a rectangular bundle of great length. The different coloured fibres form the pattern of the bill. It is not printed but actually made a part of the structure of the note. The bundle is sliced into paper thinness...

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There should be a reverse side soon...
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As I mentioned above, with that manufacturing procedure the reverse is merely the mirror image of the obverse (with the possible exception that they print the number on the reverse too).


...and a 14-digit alphanumeric is added for uniqueness.

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I'm curious sir, Where do you get the fourteen digit serial number from?
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He got it from the description you just quoted :confused: .


Hans
 
Originally posted by Baron Saarthuran:
heheehe! Oh yeah! 14... The Real question is, why are bilandin numbers English numbers?
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Well, IMO Crimps would be printed with Roman letters and digits. Using a Bilandin font is cute, but IMO not realistic. After all, the Imperium uses Anglic for its lingua franca, not Vilani.

I suppose the Imperial Mint on Vland might use a Bilandin font.


Hans
 
What? I thought everyone speaks Vilani! (hheehe)

Anyway, Bilandin looked cooler for the first few...It is Space Money after all... I printed a few out today... they have a weird size and sort of look like food stamps... I'll see if a cabbie will take it tomorrow...

:D
 
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