Talk:Dragon/@comment-29135155-20160724101811/@comment-27950421-20160802121905

Actually no, regardless of how large her hoard is, a dragon would never be able to damage an economy by using her gold to counterfit. See in our modern economic system our paper money is basically worthless. It's worth is symbolic for the gold kept in the treasury and the amount of it existing has to be controlled because the more dollar bills existing at one time, (or whatever form of cash your country uses) the less each dollar is worth. Now the gold, silver, and copper coins used in the old days are very different. Those coins all have inherent worth due to their material. A gold coin isn't worth something because everyone agrees it symbolizes gold, a gold coin is worth something because it is gold. Because of this, you could spend a gold coin from Spain in Germany without having to switch out for local currency (gold has the same worth everywhere), and no matter how much you counterfit gold coins, as long as the coin is actually made of gold, it's just increasing the amount of money available. She would be enriching the economy if anything.