Coinage

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The Alexandrian Church operates multiple gold and silver mints, and all significant coinage is created by the Church through mandatory tithes of precious metals given over for the purpose: 25% of all ores wrested from the ground are taken as "Alexandria's Share." All Alexandrian monies are stricken with a design the date of their casting on the obverse, and always have Alexandria's Star on the reverse. Because of the long, predictable, and church minting operations on the mainland, numismatism is a relatively common hobby among those in the middle and upper classes with a bent for history or religion.

Lesser coinage (copper) is minted at the national level and is wildly inconsistent in design, though not in weight. Centuries ago, the Wydmoor Mint captured the monopoly on Electrum coin production after exploiting a loophole in Church law that only mentions gold and silver coins as requiring Church creation. Because they're the only coin of substantial value not minted by the church, they often - fairly or unfairly - viewed with skepticism as currency used in dubious transactions. Wydmoor gets the gold and silver to create electrum not from any gold tithes, but by melting down the substantial gold and silver coins given over by pilgrims.