Currency Grinding (Guide)
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See Money-Making for gathering echoes, Hinterland Scrip-Making for gathering Hinterland Scrip, The Rat Market (Guide) for Rat-Shillings, and Stuiver Grinding (Guide) for Stuivers.
First City Coin[edit]
- 1 for Dispose of sixty trophies; see The Crowds of Spite (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for success on Contribute some expertise to her next novel; this is a
Kataleptic Toxicology 6 check.
The Magistracy of the Evenlode
- 8-9 for Search the lower floors
- With max Watchful and Nightmares reduction using
Ring of Stone from the rare success, this averages around 7 per action.
- With max Watchful and Nightmares reduction using
- 4 for Search the lowest Floors.
- The Deep Layer
Wages of a Dig/100; works out at 3.64 per action when using the strategy outlined in the guide.
- Also on expeditions, you get 4 on average from Dig it up! on A Lesser Find.
Other
- 10 for A bag of jangling coins on the card A Gift from the Capering Relicker; requires a station at Ealing Gardens. With Someone Is Coming sourced at 1CP/action, this averages 1 per action.
- Various options on Ambition: Heart's Desire (The Bishop of St Fiacre's 4). The best options here (Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar) and (Favours: Criminals) each average around 2 coins per action.
- 60% chance of getting 2 (so 1.2 on average) when upconverting
Compromising Documents.
- 5 for upconverting Cellars of Wine to Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise on the card A Presumptuous Little Opportunity.
- 1 for A smaller bazaar on the card The Awful Temptation of Money.
- Have someone give 30 coins to you
Fistful of Surface Currency[edit]
- 100–400 for Shake down your agent (6 actions; average 41.7 per action) at
Persuasive 110; requires 
PoSI
- 84 for Accept a share of the coffer of Admiralty coinage or Claim the coffer of Admiralty coinage; requires PoSI tier 2, and nets about 42 per action, see Brawling with Dockers (Guide) for more information.
- 140 for A conversation with the Commissioner of Police; costs
1 x Favours: Constables
- 340 from The Landlord's Safe when robbing The mansion of an Unsympathetic Landlord; see On a Heist (Guide) for more information.
- 500-750 for Sell her an Epaulette Mate;
Epaulette Mates can be sourced from 
The Chessboard, so this averages up to 50-75 per action.
- (100 + (( Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies +
Zoological Mania Bonus) / 3) when you Sell to the Dreary Midnighter; requires a skeleton that is neither chimera or Curator, with no 
Skeleton: Amalgamy or 
Skeleton: Support for a Counter-church Theology, and is only available with 
Occasional Buyer: The Dreary Midnighter.
Other
- 400 for A bag of jangling coins on A Gift from the Capering Relicker; if Someone Is Coming is sourced at 1CP/action, this gives 36.4 per action.
- 333 for A sack of coins on Secrets and Spending; when sourcing
Counting the Days via the usual carousel, this averages 15.1 per action. - 200 for Supply Halcyonic Tonic to a Surface Power on the Upper River card The Railway and the Great Game. It takes on average 6 actions and
2 x Extraordinary Implication to obtain the 
Halcyonic Tonic, so this averages 28.6 per action. - Selling lightbulbs gives 400 on a failure; the Currency/action of this method depends heavily on how low you can get your Persuasive and how efficiently you can get
Assortment of Khaganian Coinage.
Assortment of Khaganian Coinage[edit]
Khaganian coins can be obtained from selling skeletons to the Trifling Diplomat, or x 20 can be purchased for 20
, both in 
The Copper Quarter. From Midday until Evening in Khan's Heart, 
x 200 Surface-Silk Scrap can be exchanged for x 40 , and various amounts of coinage can be obtained by completing various Intrigues 12-action intrigues (each costing an 
Emetic Revelation to start); see Khaganian Intrigue (Guide) for more information.
Khan's Heart also has the Khaganian Markets, where various items may be sold for Assortment of Khaganian Coinage.
Fourth-City Echo[edit]
- 2 for Accept old coins as a reward; this requires at least 5.5 actions per coin. See L. B. Industries (Guide) for more information.
- Cracking open a crate from the the Peaceable & Godly Trading Company has a 1 in 10 chance of giving one.
Other
- 1 as a possible outcome of Provenance an artefact in the Archeology Wing of the Museum of Prelapsarian History. This also costs 375 Cryptic Clue.
Justificande Coin[edit]
- In mysteries lets Ontological Cartographers and
Monster-Hunters pay out their Professional Activities (Guide) in justificandes and other items. Up to about 1 every 16.7 actions for Ontological Cartographers and 25 actions for Monster-Hunters.
- 3 for robbing The Home of an Admiral's Widow; costs
3 x Favours: The Docks
- 1 or 2 for Accept a share of the coffer of Admiralty coinage or Claim the coffer of Admiralty coinage, requiring at least 2 actions; see Brawling with Dockers (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for Allow yourself to be sacrificed; also generates
+2 CP Wounds and requires 5 actions of setup for each sacrifice. See The Chessboard (Guide) for more information.
Other
- 3 for A bag of jangling coins on the card A Gift from the Capering Relicker; requires a station at Ealing Gardens. With Someone Is Coming sourced at 1CP/action, this averages 0.3 Coins per action/about 11 actions per coin, note that since SIC is usually gained through opportunity cards that this may take a good deal of real time longer than it initially appears depending upon your luck in card drawing.
- 1-3 for Sell valuable propaganda to the Veteran Revolutionary, an anti-Liberationist, costing
x 1 Corrective Historical Narrative on the card Which meeting?; alternatively, x 1 Special Dispensation can be exchanged for 1-5 Coins on the same card.
