Texan currency
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Cybrludite
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Texan currency
Working on my post-apocalypse-ish "US splits up into a number of different countries" game setting again, and pondering what to call Texas' currency. So far, the US & CSA both use their own dollars, the People's Republic of the Northern Star calls their money "Stars", and the Big Sky Confederation uses "Bucks". (With an antelope on the one, a mule deer on the five, an elk on the ten, a moose on the twenty, and Alvis Edgar Owens on the hundred... Yeah, the folks in the BSC are a bit... off.) Aztlan, Mexico, Chiapas, & the Rio Grande Republic all use Pesos of some sort or another. (Though I might shift one of them to use "Reals" to give some variety) As they're one of the more important successor states, I'd rather give Texas a more distinctive currency than just a "Dollar" or a "Peso". Any suggestions?
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Denis
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Re: Texan currency
Doubloons or ducats?
The Texas Pound?
The Texas Pound?
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Erik
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Re: Texan currency
I cant help but think that Stars would be the obvious choice for the Lone Star state. The star is such an obvious symbol for Texas that it would probably be the first thing that people thought of if they wanted a new currency.
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Re: Texan currency
Steers and Queers. 
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Fivetoes
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Re: Texan currency
Not so much as would be calling them "Yellow Roses".Yogimus wrote:thats racist!
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The Wizard
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Re: Texan currency
Redbacks or Republics are the best ideas i can think of right now
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Aglifter
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Re: Texan currency
Ducats would be cool... That, or something referring to BTUs or barrels - I presume your new Texas is still an energy producing area.
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Legman688
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Re: Texan currency
CByrneIV wrote:The official currency of the Republic of Texas was called the "Republic star dollar" or the "Texas star dollar". They were colloquially known as "redbacks".
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/re ... cy-01.html
Of course, the state was in debt up to its eyeballs the entire time
Hence why the Feds had to step in in 1846
I like "redbacks" as the currency name though.
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NVGdude
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Re: Texan currency
Paper currency would probably be called "Austins" or "Houstons" or something like that, at least colloquially, though officially they would probably be dollars.
That or they would use grams Au.
That or they would use grams Au.