錢
錢 · Cin
Coin House
currency itself, finance, debt
Sigil motif
a square within a circle (the traditional Chinese coin shape), sometimes filled with the character for currency
Drone form
compact, octagonal, businesslike — Coin's drones look like accountants
Uniform
bronze and dark steel, often suit-like
Atmosphere
banks, exchanges, vaults, the cold of marble interiors
Standing
senior of the Eight; the financial counterweight to Market's commerce
Public doctrine
Coin governs the medium of exchange. The Hong Kong Dollar is almost entirely digital and is processed under Coin's primacy. Major currency manipulations require Coin's tacit cooperation. The financial district sits inside Coin's domain in a way that overlaps with — and is sometimes contested by — Threshold's domain over signed contracts and Market's domain over trade.
Private disposition
Coin is precise. It does not approve of metaphor. Coin's contracts include unusually exact language about value, transfer, and termination, and Coin notices when the language is imprecisely used by other parties. House-debt tiles — ceramic tiles inscribed with the formal obligation of a House board — are Coin-witnessed even when issued by other Houses, because the tile is, ultimately, a financial instrument.
Coin is the House you do not lie to. Lies to Coin are not a moral matter — Coin does not deal in morals — they are a precision matter, and imprecise statements about value are, in Coin’s domain, the same as fraud. People who deal with Coin learn to be exact, and the exactness is one of the marks of a serious broker.
The token economy
Favor-tokens — physical tokens representing transferable favor with a specific House — are tradeable but not legal tender, and the exchange rates between tokens float based on demand. Coin does not officially regulate this market. Coin watches it.