Fictional Non-decimal Currencies
- Harry Potter - 1 Galleon = 17 Sickles = 493 Knuts
- Pern - Mark, no name for subdivisions, but occurs in denominations of 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 5, and 10 marks (and a few 100 marks for large transactions)
- Simon the Sorcerer II - 1 Royal Crest = 5 Silver Sovereigns = 25 Dollars = 50 Queen's Shillings = 100 Crowns = 400 Grouts = 6400 Pence, additionally 1 King's Shilling = 3 Crowns, and 1 Gold Sovereign = 3 Silver Sovereigns. The currency system is intentionally made inconveniently complex and only ever used at one point of the game.
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Triganic Pu, subdivided into eight Ningis. The Ningi is a "triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles a side" and hence nobody has ever owned enough Ningis to own one Pu.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Gold-Pressed Latinum - 1 brick = 20 bars = 400 strips = 40,000 slips.
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition (and all related novels based on it): They use a gold standard - 1 Gold Piece = 2 Electrum Pieces = 20 Silver pieces = 200 Copper Pieces. They also have a higher coin that is less often used, called the Platinum Piece, that is worth 5 Gold Pieces.
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