Coinage (Waterdeep)

Waterdhavian-minted coins were the following:

• platinum piece: "sun"
• gold piece: "dragons"
• electrum piece: "sambar"
• silver piece: "shard"
• copper piece: "nib"

Like Silverymoon, Waterdeep also minted two special coins. The square brass "toal", or "taol" (either name was correct), was worth 2 dragons, but had no value elsewhere, so they were usually exchanged when one left the city. The palm-sized crescent-shaped platinum "harbor moon", inset with electrum, was rated 50 dragons in the city, but much less everywhere else. During the Time of Troubles a harbor moon was worth only 2 gp outside of Waterdeep,[4] but this value increased to 30 dragons after the Second Sundering. Both coins had holes to allow them to be stacked in strings.