.. and maybe a "silver goblet" is not made of real silver either, just a colloquial term as well...

We can go assuming things all day, you know?

You must have started responding (a long time ago) before I updated my post to say that the gold coins may not even be real gold, and it could just be a colloquial term, since you find gold rings that cost a gair number of gold coins despite being made of gold. What the person you quoted was reffering to was how silver goblets were inexpensive compared to it's economic status, not to the money itself.. Silver goblets are an upper class comodity, and yet they cost basically nothing. A beggar can buy a whole set in exchange for telling you where someone lives.Basically, the point is that things upper class people have should have corresponding values. If someone is rich enough to pay 10000 for a house, they could EASILY afford all the most expensive things in the game, despite being middle class.

Geez... why do I have to explain these things?

Ok. Stay with me here....

I responded to this statement complaining that a silver cup is only worth 3 gold in Oblivion, and should cost more:
"I mean come on, a silver goblet costs like 3 gold? No way!"

Without the game lore/canon/whatever telling you what "gold" is or "silver" is in-game, how much it costs, its properties, etc, I believe it is safe to assume the game refers to what we know in real life as gold and silver, and in real life gold is way more expensive than silver. I have never seen a game which includes silver and gold where gold was cheaper than silver. Have you?

Unfortuanly your assumption is completly wrong. First off you can't apply real life comparisons to the game since the game isn't set on earth, it is set on Nirn. So any earth based reality or history has no bearing on Nirn what so ever. Sure the game is obviously influenced by our human reality and existance but you can't use it as a basis for your arguement. Secondly even if you could why would you use today's prices to make the comparison? There were points in human history where gold was worth less then silver.

Geez..

Ok. Could you please enlighten me as to when gold was worth less than silver in human history? I seem to remember the Gold Standard; pirates attacking ships for gold; the Spaniards looking not for El Silverado, but for El Dorado; Pharaohs buried with gold and gold masks, not silver masks; Aztecs, Maya, Incas, all gold, no silver... I can't really think off the top of my head about a time where silver was worth more than gold...

there was a time aluminum cost more than gold, http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/05/food/fo-42149

.. and maybe a "silver goblet" is not made of real silver either, just a colloquial term as well...

We can go assuming things all day, you know?

How does a blacksmith in Anvil know that the repair hammer I stole in Bruma is stolen?

Could you then please enlighten me, and tell me what are the prices of gold and silver in Nim?

Well, apparently the cost of enough silver to make a silver goblet in Nirn is about 3 Septims.

Well, apparently the cost of enough silver to make a silver goblet in Nirn is about 3 Septims.

Well, apparently the cost of enough silver to make a silver goblet in Nirn is about 3 Septims.

As for the OP I wonder if they made some items worth 0 in OB is to counteract, in some odd way, the whacked out economy in MW. Hmmm......if I collected 2000 spoons (assuming a value of 1 septim) I could afford a small house in the waterfront district of the Imperial City. Not too shabby!

Ok? And? Is aluminum a colloquial term for silver? Is there any aluminum currency you know of?


As a general comment: bottom line, your assumptions can be as valid or invalid as mine. The game sets its own economic standards. The game says a "silver" goblet is worth 3 "gold", and information costs 20 "gold". That's what it is. What these standards are based on? I would think on real life,as that is what they most resemble.