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What are the currencies of the major races?

Aslan Currency

From the MGT: Aslan alien module:

[There] are now only three currencies in active use across Aslan space. The Yahai and the Khaukhi are currencies sponsored by the Yerlyaruiwo and Khaukheairl clans and are used in the Spinward and Trailing sides of the Hierate respectively. The Yahai is worth approximately 0.3 credits; the Khaukhi is worth 0.5 credits. The clans of the Ya’soisthea have their own currency, the Soitshi, which is roughly comparable to the credit. All three currencies are minted in the form of metal or plastic discs and divided into smaller denominations . . . . It is much easier to falsify Aslan currency than Imperial credits and many traders along the Aslan border must carefully examine all the coins before they accept them.
 
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Solomani Currency

From the MGT Solomani alien module:

Solomani monetary and banking systems were based on those of the Imperium and the Solomani credit is virtually identical to the Imperial currency. Unlike the Imperium, which is rather conservative in its currency designs, the Information ministry routinely pressures the Solomani treasury to add new patriotic mottos or ‘inspirational’ designs every decade or so.
 
The Hive Federation is, as expected, weird about money. GURPS Traveller Alien Races 3 has this on page 19:

The Hiver economy . . . is very difficult for non-Federation members to understand, though it seems to work admirably for them. Basically, Hivers have a strong desire for material comforts and, hence, the wealth that makes these things possible. But they rely on a system of credit in which an individual has a positive or negative credit balance with a particular nest. . . . Just how this system is regulated is a matter of some uncertainty to Humans; it seems to be largely a combination of honor and ambition on the part of the Hiver nest-member which limits unrestrained tapping of resources. . . . The rest of the Federation use the same monetary units as the Hiver (biyzihn, literally “hourly exchange-value notation,” worth about Cr15), but the Gurvin insist on a system closer to Imperial norms than that of the Hivers.
 
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