The Truth About the Universe

January 7th, 2017

January 7th, 2017,

Currency

Almost every planet has currency. For us here on Earth it's called money. And it's in the form of bills and coins. It goes by different names all over the world. But it's still the same thing.

A few hundred thousand planets have bartering or free-exchange system. But the rest have money in some form or another. Only they don't call it that.

Most worlds call it either credits or units, sometimes both. Credits are usually coins or poker tpe chips of some kind while units are more like our bills.

It doesn't really matter what kind of currency it is or the name of it. In fact, I just recently wrote a story where covs was the currency there. I didn't specify but it was both bills and coins. Sort of the same way we call ours money.

We have ones, fives, tens, twenties, etc. The same is pretty much true on the other planets too. Some only have denomination. If so, it's usually ones.

The same is true when it comes to coins or chips. We have pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters etc. So do they. But like the bills they sometimes it only one or two money amounts.

I don't usually use currency in too many of my stories. But I a few times. If I did they were either called credits or units. A story or twovit was both. The reason I don't use them is either the story doesn't warrent it or I don't have the Word Count to explain them.