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	Whilst paper money is new in [[Ankh-Morpork]], it has been around for a long time in the [[Agatean Empire]], as [[Rincewind]] found out while talking to [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] during the events in {{IT}}. Mr Bent mentioned this to Moist as a "heathen practice", but the new Master of the Royal Mint was clicking along the wheels of [[Narrativium\|narrative inevitability]] at his usual full steam ahead pace.		Whilst paper money is new in [[Ankh-Morpork]], it has been around for a long time in the [[Agatean Empire]], as [[Rincewind]] found out while talking to [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] during the events in {{IT}}. Mr Bent mentioned this to Moist as a "heathen practice", but the new Master of the Royal Mint was clicking along the wheels of [[Narrativium\|narrative inevitability]] at his usual full steam ahead pace.

	[[File:AM dollar note obverse.jpg]]
	[[File:Fivedollar bill.jpg]]		[[File:AM dollar note obverse.jpg\|thumb\|560px\|left\|Paper currency as imagined by [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]]]]
			[[File:Fivedollar bill.jpg\|thumb\|560px\|right\|Paper currency as imagined by [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]]]]

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Mare-Silverus at 04:52, 14 August 2014

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	These days the notes are printed by [[Teemer and Spools]] and are the beautiful creations of [[Owlswick Jenkins]] rather than hastily scribbled, but the principle hasn't changed at all.		These days the notes are printed by [[Teemer and Spools]] and are the beautiful creations of [[Owlswick Jenkins]] rather than hastily scribbled, but the principle hasn't changed at all.

	Whilst paper money is new in [[Ankh-Morpork]] it has been around for a long time in the [[Agatean Empire]] as [[Rincewind]] found out while talking to [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] during the events in {{IT}}. Mr Bent mentioned this to Moist as a "heathen practice", but the new Master of the Royal Mint was clicking along the wheels of [[Narrativium\|narrative inevitability]] at his usual full steam ahead pace.		Whilst paper money is new in [[Ankh-Morpork]], it has been around for a long time in the [[Agatean Empire]], as [[Rincewind]] found out while talking to [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] during the events in {{IT}}. Mr Bent mentioned this to Moist as a "heathen practice", but the new Master of the Royal Mint was clicking along the wheels of [[Narrativium\|narrative inevitability]] at his usual full steam ahead pace.

	[[File:AM dollar note obverse.jpg]]		[[File:AM dollar note obverse.jpg]]


	[[File:Fivedollar bill.jpg]]		[[File:Fivedollar bill.jpg]]



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	Whilst paper money is new in [[Ankh-Morpork]] it has been around for a long time in the [[Agatean Empire]] as [[Rincewind]] found out while talking to [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] during the events in {{IT}}. Mr Bent mentioned this to Moist as a "heathen practice", but the new Master of the Royal Mint was clicking along the wheels of [[Narrativium\|narrative inevitability]] at his usual full steam ahead pace.		Whilst paper money is new in [[Ankh-Morpork]] it has been around for a long time in the [[Agatean Empire]] as [[Rincewind]] found out while talking to [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] during the events in {{IT}}. Mr Bent mentioned this to Moist as a "heathen practice", but the new Master of the Royal Mint was clicking along the wheels of [[Narrativium\|narrative inevitability]] at his usual full steam ahead pace.

			[[File:AM dollar note obverse.jpg]]

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	Whilst paper money is new in [[Ankh-Morpork]] it has been around for a long time in the [[Agatean Empire]] as [[Rincewind]] found out while talking to [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] during the events in {{IT}}. Mr Bent mentioned this to Moist as a "heathen practice", but the new Master of the Royal Mint was clicking along the wheels of [[Narrativium\|narrative inevitability]] at his usual full steam ahead pace.		Whilst paper money is new in [[Ankh-Morpork]] it has been around for a long time in the [[Agatean Empire]] as [[Rincewind]] found out while talking to [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] during the events in {{IT}}. Mr Bent mentioned this to Moist as a "heathen practice", but the new Master of the Royal Mint was clicking along the wheels of [[Narrativium\|narrative inevitability]] at his usual full steam ahead pace.


			[[File:Fivedollar bill.jpg]]



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2012-09-24T00:08:09Z

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The revolutionary new idea sweeping the streets of [[Ankh-Morpork]].

[[Moist von Lipwig]] introduced stamps to pay for the cost of a letter, and inadvertently created a crude but serviceable form of paper [[currency]] (described by [[Mavolio Bent]] as "the revolutionary unsecured one-penny note") which passes all the standard economic tests: ie, it represents the full economic value of the service provided and may be exchanged for an equivalent value of goods. And, crucially, people had now been conditioned by Moist to believe a piece of paper does have a monetary worth, far beyond that of the paper it's printed on.

From here, once Moist had become [[Master of the Royal Mint]], with people ready to believe a piece of paper is worth its face value in gold, and everyone confident to participate in that illusion, it was no enormous difficulty to move to a paper-based currency.

The first draft was a little rough - merely a piece of paper with "$1" drawn on it, the Chairman's pawprint (see {{MM}} if that sounds odd) and the two legends [[Undertaking|AD URBEM PERTINET]] (It's All About the City) and "''Promitto fore ut possessori postulanti nummum unum solvem, an apte satisfaciam.''" This means, roughly, "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks, or I will reimburse sufficiently", which is very close to the legend "I promise to the bearer, on demand, the sum of" written on all British paper money. It is commonly held to be the case that, should the bearer of e.g. a £5 note could exchange it for £5 worth of gold in a bank and that is true ''provided'' no-one ever actually asks. Once you've got your head around that fact, it becomes clear that paper money is in fact an illusion, but one we all believe in - we have to.

This is the current state of affairs in Ankh-Morpork. It took a little while, but the small storekeepers on [[Tenth Egg Street]] gradually warmed to the idea that a piece of paper can be passed around even more easily than a small round piece of metal, becoming in turn some glitter and glue, some tobacco and some sausages ''whilst always remaining the same piece of paper'' and not losing a fraction of its worth.

These days the notes are printed by [[Teemer and Spools]] and are the beautiful creations of [[Owlswick Jenkins]] rather than hastily scribbled, but the principle hasn't changed at all.

Whilst paper money is new in [[Ankh-Morpork]] it has been around for a long time in the [[Agatean Empire]] as [[Rincewind]] found out while talking to [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] during the events in {{IT}}. Mr Bent mentioned this to Moist as a "heathen practice", but the new Master of the Royal Mint was clicking along the wheels of [[Narrativium|narrative inevitability]] at his usual full steam ahead pace.

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