Currency

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Known Currencies

  • Bold indicates significant use in exchange beyond the issuing nation by and between neighboring powers

Alpha/Beta Quadrant

Interstellar powers

  • Cardassian Union: Lek (VOY: "Caretaker"; DS9 Novel: Avatar, Book One)
    • - 2371 - 2376 -
  • Ferengi Alliance: Gold-pressed latinum (ENT: "Acquisition"; DS9; etc.)
    • - 2151 - Present
    • 100 slips <> 1 strip (DS9: "Body Parts")
    • 20 strips <> 1 bar (DS9: "Body Parts")
  • Klingon Empire: jiQ (VAN Novel: Harbinger)
    • - 2265 -
  • Third Republic of Bajor: Lita (DS9: "Necessary Evil"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • - 2370 - 2376 -

Planetary governments

  • Tarkalea: Notch-rock (DS9 Novel: Avatar, Book One)
    • - 2376 -

Gamma Quadrant

Interstellar powers

  • Karemma: Dirak (DS9: "The Search, Part I"; DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • - 2371 - 2376 -
  • Wadi: Klon paeg (DS9: "Move Along Home"; DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • - 2371 - 2376 -
    • 2 half paegs <> 1 paeg (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Given usage, it seems likely that paeg is the unit of exchange while klon paeg (or possibly simply klon) is the currency, similar to the pound sterling vs. the pound or the renminbi vs. the yuan

Unknown

  • Sto (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • - 2376 -

Approximate exchange rates

  • Klon paeg
    • April 2376: 1 klon paeg <> 0.25 bar of gold-pressed latinum (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Gold-pressed Latinum
    • April 2376: 1 bar <> 4 klon paegs (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)