Coins

Coins

Release	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	No
Destroy	Drop
Values
Value	1 coin
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Weight	0 kg
Examine
Lovely money!
Advanced data
Item ID	995
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

Coins, also known as Gold Pieces, are the most common form of currency in RuneScape. In the game, coins appear as small gold coins, of varying shapes, and are stackable. In Grim Tales, it is revealed that coins have more intricate designs imprinted on their faces, although it is impossible for players to notice it.

When the number of coins in a single stack exceeds 99,999, the examine text reads "____ x Coins", where the blank is the exact number of coins in the stack. If there is less than that, the examine text reads "Lovely money!" when examined in the inventory. When a stack of coins on the ground is examined, the examine will always show the exact amount.

According to Gypsy Aris, in the Fourth Age, coins were made of silver.

Terminology[edit | edit source]

Beside coins, players commonly refer to it as gold, gold pieces, gp, cash or money. Alternate terms for coins are occasionally used by NPCs in RuneScape.

Stacking[edit | edit source]

A postage stamp showing Postie Pete refers to coins as "gp".

One thousand coins (1,000) is usually called 1k. Similar to the metric system, the "k" stands for "kilo", which is Greek for "thousand". Likewise, one million coins is often called 1 mil or 1M, and one billion coins is referred to as 1bil or 1B. On German-language servers, the symbol for "k" is changed to "T", since "Tausend" is German for thousand. On Spanish and Portuguese language worlds, the symbol for "k" is changed to "m", since "Mil" is Spanish and Portuguese for thousand.

A stack of gold has a small coloured text on the upper-left hand corner of the stack. With larger stacks of coin - as with all stackable item - both the colour of the text and the stack's examine text change, depending on the amount of gold in the stack.

A stack of coins that uses a 'K' or 'M' identifier always rounds down to the integer multiple. For example, 15.9M is shown as 15M. This protects players receiving the coins in trade from being cheated by rounded values, e.g. A player receiving 15M can be guaranteed that the stack is not just 14.5M rounded up.

Range		Text Colour	Suffix	Multiplier	Example
from	to	Text Colour	Suffix	Multiplier	Example
1	99,999	Yellow	none	1	99,999 displayed as ""
100,000	9,999,999	White	K	1,000	9,999,999 displayed as ""
10,000,000	2,147,483,647	Green	M	1,000,000	999,999,999 displayed as ""

Coin icons
1	2	3	4	5	25	100	250	1000	10000+

Maximum limits[edit | edit source]

The maximum number of coins that players may hold in a single stack is 2,147,483,647 due to the usage of the signed 32 bit integer data type (2³¹- 1). In terms of actual coins, it is possible to store money in the bank, inventory, money pouch, GE, Mahogany prize chest, Treasure chest (Carnillean Rising) and kingdom of Miscellania (7.5M max), giving an absolute total of 27,924,787,411 stored - thirteen max-stacks plus 7.5 million.

Players with wealth exceeding this amount usually choose to either invest their money in discontinued items or spirit shards, or another item of high market liquidity. Shards are worth a static amount of 25 coins and can be sold to any summoning store for such amount, and therefore are the typically chosen currency when coins are no longer an option. A maximum stack in this common alternative format can hold for the player an additional 53,687,091,175 (almost 53.7b) coins. Players exceeding even that may choose to purchase untradeable Spirit shard packs, when opened grant 5,000 spirit shards each. This can be used to store up to a maximum of 268,435,455,875,000 coins (268 trillion).

Coins in Daemonheim[edit | edit source]

Main article: Rusty coins

Coins in Daemonheim used to be similar to regular coins, but with the money pouch update on 6 December 2011, they were renamed to rusty coins and were recoloured to grey. They were later recoloured to orange to prevent them being missed on the floor. They have a different examine and are destroyed upon leaving. Coins have a few uses such as buying items from the Smuggler or marking traps. The examine, which is "They make the world go round.", is a reference to the common idiom used in the real world, "Money makes the world go round". You can ask the Smuggler about them who will reply: "Oh, they're nothing. You can give them all to me, if you want."

Money pouch[edit | edit source]

The Money pouch was added on 6 December 2011. You can store up to 2,147,483,647 coins inside it. If you die anywhere, even in the Wilderness, the money will not be dropped. You can withdraw your coins at any time, and add money anywhere outside of the Wilderness. It is protected by the bank PIN, if it has been set. It cannot be accessed while Dungeoneering or while playing some minigames, such as Stealing Creation and Soul Wars, however.

Making money through skills[edit | edit source]

Main article: Money making guide

As money in RuneScape plays a necessity for all players, certain skills in the RuneScape community have gained popularity because of their potential to create profit for the player with a vast number of ways to do so. However, as with the introduction to the Grand Exchange, many of these skills became impossible to solely generate great amounts of money, but this also allowed other lesser used skills to be in demand, though requiring very high levels.

Drop sources[edit | edit source]

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For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Zombie swab	47	10–40	Common
Zombie pirate	35; 49; 50	30–60	Common
Zombie hand	75	750	Rare
Zombie (random event)	14; 29; 49; 79; 120; 159; 170	26	Rare
Zombie (The Shadow Reef)	107	1,000–15,000	Common
Zombie (The Shadow Reef)	107	30,000–65,000	Rare
Zombie (Tarn's Lair)	72; 74; 75; 77; 78; 79; 82; 84; 85	17–473	8/128
Zombie	11; 12; 22; 29; 72; 74; 75; 77; 78; 79; 82; 84; 85	1–82	Common
Zoja	28	10; 90; 120; 222; 364	Common
Zamorakian sniper (Heart of Gielinor)	108	272–3,404	10/128
Zamorak wizard	70	77; 89; 240	Common
Zamorak warrior	61; 65	100	Common
Zamorak ranger	64	100	Common
Zamorak mage (monster)	68	100	Common
Zamorak crafter	26	1–50	Common
Zakl'n Gritch	102	1,000–1,500	63/8192^{[dr 1]}
Yuri	28	10; 90; 120; 222; 364	Common
Yukimura of Hanto	105	200–3,500	Common
Young grotworm	28	100	Common
Yor'Ger the Deceiver	200	1,000–15,000	Common
Yor'Ger the Deceiver	200	30,000–65,000	Rare
Yeti	63	272–648	Common
Yadviga	28	10; 90; 120; 222; 364	Common
Xiang the Water-shaper	111	200–3,500	Common
Wyvern (elite)	133	6,021–9,536	Common
Wyvern	127	6,021–9,536	28/128
Wythien	N/A	10,730–29,219	Common
Woman	2; 4	1–400	Common
Woman	1	3; 20	Always
Wolf (Heart of Gielinor)	108	272–3,404	10/128
Wizard	18	1–30	Common
Winter Weekends (2012)	N/A	43–731	Uncommon^{[dr 2]}	N/A
Wingman Skree	102	1,000–1,500	Rare (63/8,192)^{[dr 3]}
WildyWyrm (historical)	382	3,000	Uncommon
Wight ranger	108	272–3,404	10/128
Wight	108	272–3,404	10/128
White Knight	35	1–200	Common
Werewolf	63; 89	10; 90; 120; 222; 364; 400	Common
Waterfiend (elite)	111	1,200	Common
Waterfiend	102; 107	1,200	17/128
Water elemental	44	12	Common
Water elemental	44	42	Uncommon
Watchman (Yanille)	0; 65	60	Always
Warrior woman	0; 25	18	Always
Warrior (Rellekka)	39	15–300	Common
Warped tortoise	72	30–180	Common
Warped terrorbird	82	15–479	Common
Warped rat	12	130	Common
Warped fly	7	80	Common
Warped cockroach	1	40; 80	15/128

^ This source has further information about this drop, see the Zakl'n Gritch page for details
^ This source has further information about this drop, see the Winter Weekends (2012) page for details
^ This source has further information about this drop, see the Wingman Skree page for details

Gallery[edit | edit source]

1 coin detailed
2 coins detailed
3 coins detailed
4 coins detailed
5-24 coins detailed
25-99 coins detailed
100-249 coins detailed
250-999 coins detailed
1,000-9,999 coins detailed
10,000+ coins detailed
Coins during Grim Tales
Coins during Shilo Village
Coins retrieved during Beneath Cursed Tides
Coins on the former post-login screen

Update history[edit | edit source]

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

patch 9 September 2019 (Update):
- Coin stack model has been made less shiny to stop in some cases, the coins appearing white.

ninja 2 February 2015 (Update):
- Examining a stack of coins on the ground will now display how many there are in the stack.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

In RuneScape Classic, the same image is used for coins, regardless of the number of coins dropped. Often, the only way to know how many coins are on the ground is to pick them up.
The maximum price one can put up on the Grand Exchange is 2,147,483,647 coins. Any offer greater than this will simply read "Too high!", where the total price would normally be shown. Since you cannot raise the price beyond 2,147,483,647 coins, you can only get "Too high!" when you offer multiple items.
Alchemy spells cannot be cast on coins. If a player attempts it, a message will inform the player that "Coins are already made of gold...". You can, however, turn other gold items (such as gold ore and gold bars) into coins using alchemy spells. Although, you cannot convert gold bars or other gold items into coins besides using alchemy.
When you kill two NPCs and both drop coins in the same spot, the coins will stack.
With a Squeal of Fortune update, it was once possible to win 600 million coins, the largest single source of spontaneous coins in the game excluding CoinShare.
Even if there is only 1 coin on the ground, it will still say coins.
When you deposit 1,000,000,000 coins or more into your money pouch, it has a different sound effect than any amount withdrawn below 1 billion.
Mice in the witches house appear to drop 'Giant' coins because the player is tiny when fighting them.
Trying to deposit coins via the Grand Exchange 'To Bank' option, while having a max cash pile in your bank will yield: 'You have ran out of Bank Space. Please make more room' regardless of the amount of bank space left.
In the 13th issue of the God letters, Guthix maintains that all coins are of a similar size, weight, and are made of "purest gold", which is why they are accepted everywhere regardless of the patterning each fief applies to the currency that they mint. ^[1]^[2]

References[edit | edit source]

^ Jagex. "God Letter 13 - Guthix Maintains, Letter 15" (Archived from the original.) RuneScape God Letters.
^ Jagex. "God Letter 14 - The Return of Saradomin, Letter 14" (Archived from the original.) RuneScape God Letters.

[Zakl'n_Gritch-1] This source has further information about this drop, see the Zakl'n Gritch page for details

[Winter_Weekends_(2012)-2] This source has further information about this drop, see the Winter Weekends (2012) page for details

[Wingman_Skree-3] This source has further information about this drop, see the Wingman Skree page for details

[4] Jagex. "God Letter 13 - Guthix Maintains, Letter 15" (Archived from the original.) RuneScape God Letters.

[5] Jagex. "God Letter 14 - The Return of Saradomin, Letter 14" (Archived from the original.) RuneScape God Letters.

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Coins

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Terminology[edit | edit source]

Stacking[edit | edit source]

Maximum limits[edit | edit source]

Coins in Daemonheim[edit | edit source]

Money pouch[edit | edit source]

Making money through skills[edit | edit source]

Drop sources[edit | edit source]

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Update history[edit | edit source]

Trivia[edit | edit source]

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References[edit | edit source]

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