If the stormcloaks win the CW will they change their currency or just stick to septims for convenience sake? I only ask because I noticed the septim coin was engraved with the words "the empire is the law" and "the law is sacred". Needless to say it would be embarrassing for die-hard stormcloaks to be trading coins that basically say the empire is sacred

I imagine for the time being they don't care. Gold is gold.

I don't think they'll bother changing it for a while.

If it ever changed, They should use gold coins with a bear on 1 side and Ulfric on the other.

Well, isn't the Septims the international currency.

For the Empire.

Not until they find a way to make Reachmen and Dunmer tears into tradable currency.

I kid.

I do find it funny that the Stormcloaks never indicate changing their currency. Maybe it's because of the name. What would they call their money under the new regime?

Ulfrics? That doesn't sound good.

Stormcloaks? That's just confusing. It's like the word for snake, bread, and Friday all being that damn dog's name (Gurp Gorp). So what would they use instead?

I've got it!

Maybe its just widely accepted.

That would be cool
The new engraved slogan could be "fight or die well" on one side and "I fight because I must" on the other. Plus I'm sure having his head on a coin would work wonders for Ulfric's ego

This.

they should call them Gold pieces.

I doubt it's used in the dominion

A currency reform would severely sap trade with other nations. I think even the Dominion uses Septims at least as a secondary currency.

Thing about gold coins is that it doesn't matter squat what's depicted on the coin. What matters is its content. In Rome, for example, coins of old Emperors were sometimes minted by their successors because they were usually known to have larger amounts of gold/silver in them, and thus were useful for emperors that had devalued the currency but had to conduct trade or pay ransoms. Roman coins were used in nations that were at war with Rome or had nothing to do with Rome, since everyone knew the coins were good so it didn't matter whose face it's on the observe.

I have no idea, what about just gold coins?

They were originally called drakes and that works in Skyrim, too.

If an independent Skyrim mints its own currency, I guess, remains to be seen. That was often the way of things with princes in medieval Europe who wanted to assert their power. Though because of gameplay considerations, Beth will probably keep it simple and the currency will just be "gold coins." That's what they were called in Oblivion anyway.

Typical Stormcloak... No imagination.

Fine, how about...bears? Have a stormcloak bear on the back, and Ulfric's face on the other?

"Oh look, a bear!"

"Whaaa!!!"

"No, I mean a gold bear! A coin!"

" "

read post 4.

I don't think the currency will change, it has been in place for 600+ years. Not to mention the metal in them is valuable regardless of the decor. And because the leaders of the Stormcloaks seem to have a problem with the Epire as it is, not the Empire as it was. Keeping the Septims(as in the name) might just be a last statement about the Medes.

Just make sure it's the bear's head on the coin. If it's the other end, the citizens won't be able to tell heads from tails.

Lol, well there you go.

"the bear" I like it

I say we make it officialz.

And remember to make it a bear head.

If I had a PC and photoshop I'd make it.

It's cause printing new coins is expensive.