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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AladdinsGenie</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:07 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">It could be post-KOT. It says Prince Aladdin, but I don't know how much Disney paid attention to what they were saying. <br /> <br />Maybe he picked up the hobby to make sure he gets out of the palace <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" />. Or Sultan influenced him. <br /> <br />Or she misspelled Khuriya wrong <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> <br /> <br />I usually check amazon.com if I don't hear about it on LJ somehow. I still haven't found the US release of the book that's on the digital site, but there's a set of Disney Princess chapter books they've been releasing and Jasmine's release date just came out.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Calluna</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:43 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">His birthday, eh? I've already got the work-out-the-series-timeline bug again thanks to that other thread, and this is not helping. <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> <br /> <br />Al doesn't seem like a collector to me, but if he was it would make sense he'd go for coins. <br /> <br />Asha has carpal tunnel, maybe? <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> <br /> <br />Where do they have the upcoming books listed? Is it on that Disney Digital Books site?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AladdinsGenie</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:07 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">This is sort of related, sort of not, but there's a Jasmine chapter book coming out (January 25, 2011 >___<), but besides them FINALLY doing something with Aladdin's birthday for a change, they mention coins in the description: <br /> <br /><span style="font-style: italic">Jasmine: The Missing Coin <br /> <br />Life at the palace is splendid for Princess Jasmine and Prince Aladdin. With Aladdin’s birthday coming up, Jasmine wants to find him the perfect gift, so she sets off on a Magic Carpet ride with Rajah the tiger. She is determined to track down the coveted camel coin Aladdin is missing from his rare-coin collection. It’s smooth sailing until Magic Carpet suddenly loses its power, leaving Jasmine and Rajah stranded in the desert! Will the pair find the coin and make it back to the palace in time for Aladdin’s birthday?</span> <br /> <br />So on top of current currency, there's rare coins - great <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> <br /> <br />(And hey, is Asha not doing her job? Carpet shouldn't be losing power <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" />)</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Calluna</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:50 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Coincidentally, I was listening to <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/YQMPZkAXRW6iYDCe5L4KSA" target="_blank" class="postlink">this podcast</a> the other day and they mentioned that in the early years of the caliphate, before they got around to making their own coins, they used old or imported coins from the Byzantine Empire, i.e. <span style="font-style: italic">Greece</span>. They weren't called drachmas back then, but it makes it sound like our theory isn't too far out there. <img src="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt="Smile" border="0" /></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Princess of Agrabah</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:05 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I think that denari is their main currency since it's mentioned so much. It just occured to me that maybe they do deal with a lot of foreign currency like shekels and drachma because of their location. I kind of like to think of Agrabah as a sort of crossroads..</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Calluna</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 1:04 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Took a quick look at wikipedia and although drachmas are Greek, a lot of middle eastern countries use dirhams, which are basically a translation of drachmas. Maybe that's what they were thinking of? And shekels are Israeli and other older cultures from that area... <br /> <br />I don't know, I got the impression that shekels weren't worth much but looking at the citations there I'm not sure where I got that. Am I missing some references there?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AladdinsGenie</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 4:44 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I think I kind of figured Drachma was foreign because it reminds me of the old Greek currency, but then wondered how Agrabah decided to use it. For foreign affairs would make sense <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> <br /> <br />So Dinari is the suspected currency, which is probably gold pieces. Then there's sheckles which is maybe small change, and then silver/cooper coins?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Calluna</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 1:52 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Just saw that in "Riders Redux", they mention that the drachmas are gold. I don't remember if they said dinari are as well, but I suspect they are. <br /> <br />"The Spice is Right" - 5 coppers is too cheap to sell magic spice <br />"The Wind Jackals of Mozenrath" - gold pieces are used in the Monopoly game <br />"Smolder and Wiser" - Abis Mal offers a 10 gold coin bounty for Aladdin <br />"Never Say Nefir" - "Magic shoes-6,000 gold pieces" <br />"Moonlight Madness" - The fortune teller wants to be paid a silver coin, but Aladdin only has a copper one <br /> <br />Remembered another one about shekels, from "The Flawed Couple": <br />"Here's a shekel, invest in a CLUE!" <br /> <br /></span> <table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Salukfan wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> I think drachma is used mostly in relation to money that's found outside the city? If that makes any sense. <br /> <br />I know Iago counts drachma in "Riders Redux" and Genie advises Aladdin to not take any wooden drachma... <br /> <br />There's some logic to this statement that fails me/some examples that do not pop to mind, but I feel like denari's the best bet.</td> </tr> </table> <span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I think you're right, because of all the times it's mentioned, one is of coins being used to pay a debt to a foreign country, and the other times are all as part of a saying (like "don't take any wooden drachmas"). That sounds like, for instance, how a lot of Americans know the saying "in for a penny, in for a pound", even though we use dollars instead of pounds. And I bet people in the UK know a few saying about dollars. <img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" border="0" /> <br /> <br />The way they talk about shekels makes them sound like small change. Maybe they're the same as the copper or silver coins? Or another foreign currency?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Calluna</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 12:52 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span> <table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>AladdinsGenie wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">...would you say the currency in Agrabah is Dinari? I know Dracmas and maybe one other currency has been mentioned, but I think Dinari is safe to say, right?</td> </tr> </table> <span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Sorry, I'm a bit late to the game. Anyway, this is where having all the transcripts comes in handy! <img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" border="0" /> <br /> <br />Mentions of dinari: <br /> <br />"Getting the Bugs Out" - A working jeweled firefly is worth 100 dinari, but a broken one is only worth 2 dinari <br /> <br />"Mission: Imp-Possible" - 400 dinari charged to lead Genie to the worm, and 900 dinari for octopus soup <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> <br /> <br />"Never Say Nefir" - "Genie trapping- 500 dinar" <br /> <br />"Seems Like Old Crimes, Part 1" - A man complains Aladdin stole "every last dinar" he had <br /> <br />"Poor Iago" - The sultan's not gonna miss a few million dinari, and Farouk charges 2 dinari for a sip of water (he might have lowered the price by that point) <br /> <br />"Vocal Hero" - Amin is a "two-dinari" thief (like a two-bit thief; 2 bits = 25 cents) <br /> <br />"Do the Rat Thing" - 50 dinari for a Thieves' Guild permit <br /> <br />"The Animal Kingdom" - "the 64 thousand dinari question" <br /> <br />"I Never Mechanism I Didn't Like" - mechanic Genie charges "50 dinari an hour, plus parts" <br /> <br /> <br />Mentions of shekels: <br /> <br />"Power to the Parrot" - Sultan bends down to pick up a shekel, and Genie charges a shekel for three chances to dunk Iago <br /> <br />"Dune Quixote" - Abu's hide should fetch a shekel or two <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> <br /> <br />"Never Say Nefir" - whale jelly: 500 shekels <br /> <br /> <br />Mentions of drachma: <br /> <br />"Dune Quixote" - "phony as a three-drachma bill" <br /> <br />"Mudder's Day" - "don't take any wooden drachma" <br /> <br />"Elemental, My Dear Jasmine" - "another day, another drachma" <br /> <br />"Riders Redux" - Iago counts the stolen money in drachmas <br /> <br /> <br />I still need to look up about gold/silver/copper coins, but the baby just woke up so I'll get back to you later. <br /> <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> <br /> <br />Edit: spliting this out to its own thread so it doesn't get lost <img src="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt="Smile" border="0" /></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Princess of Agrabah</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 5:53 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Abis Mal mentioned shekels in the Return of Jafar, too.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Jafaria</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:06 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span> <table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>AladdinsGenie wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">...would you say the currency in Agrabah is Dinari? I know Dracmas and maybe one other currency has been mentioned, but I think Dinari is safe to say, right?</td> </tr> </table> <span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />There were also shekels, I think, in one of the Getzistan episodes.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Salukfan</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:16 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">... I want to say denari, yes. I could be wrong, but I think drachma is used mostly in relation to money that's found outside the city? If that makes any sense. <br /> <br />I know Iago counts drachma in "Riders Redux" and Genie advises Aladdin to not take any wooden drachma... <br /> <br />There's some logic to this statement that fails me/some examples that do not pop to mind, but I feel like denari's the best bet.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AladdinsGenie</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 3:47 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">...would you say the currency in Agrabah is Dinari? I know Dracmas and maybe one other currency has been mentioned, but I think Dinari is safe to say, right?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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