I was thinking prices (troops, items, cattle etcetera) and income seem to be a bit inflated... as scillingas were made mostly of gold afterall (well until circa 680 AD). If I recall correctly, there are accounts of payments for things like Kentish cows being worth 1 sceat in and around this century, a sceat being made mostly of silver. Now since they used 'sceatta' to pay for said cow in the account, I assume it was after 680 and Britain had moved from a primarily gold-based currency to a silver one, I have no definitive source for how much a Kentish cow would cost before 680 and in scillingas, but if it remains roughly the same, 1 scilling could buy you roughly 166 Kentish cows!
Hence the apparent inflation, as cows in the game usually cost several tens or hundreds of scillingas. My character recently had 500,000 scillingas (that's a lot of cows worth). I use 'recently' because I decided to blow 80% of it on an army of Teulu and Hearthweru... which were promptly decimated in a siege to start my Kingdom, but I digress. I am unsure how rare it is to acquire that amount in other people's games, but I had a very advanced character with several enterprises and heaps of war-victories with plenty of trophies, loot and prisoners to sell for all of them. So others may have had a different experience, such as starting with a non-imported slave character.
There is also an account of an unusual wergild (unusual in that it was higher than usual) of 30,000 sceatta for a slain Anglo-Saxon King. Which would equal roughly 180 scillingas, as another example of their worth. Though there was some debate whether it meant Scillingas instead of Sceatta.
Now obviously it would probably be more trouble than it is worth to change these values to more 'historical standards'. An alternative would be to change the word 'Scillingas' to 'Sceatta' which was made mostly of silver and was worth far less, 166 were needed to equal one scilling. The only issue being it would basically be a lateral move for historicity, since sceatta were not overly common until around 680 AD.
So am I completely off-base here, with no idea or understanding of the currency of the time? It is kind of confusing, especially with Scillingas, which originally were gold coins, but were debased into silver ones, becoming the sceat/paening, but scillingas as a true gold coin still lived on. Scillingas eventually became the shilling, and lost their gold-coin status overall, while the sceat became the pence and was still valued at less than a shilling.
Hence the apparent inflation, as cows in the game usually cost several tens or hundreds of scillingas. My character recently had 500,000 scillingas (that's a lot of cows worth). I use 'recently' because I decided to blow 80% of it on an army of Teulu and Hearthweru... which were promptly decimated in a siege to start my Kingdom, but I digress. I am unsure how rare it is to acquire that amount in other people's games, but I had a very advanced character with several enterprises and heaps of war-victories with plenty of trophies, loot and prisoners to sell for all of them. So others may have had a different experience, such as starting with a non-imported slave character.
There is also an account of an unusual wergild (unusual in that it was higher than usual) of 30,000 sceatta for a slain Anglo-Saxon King. Which would equal roughly 180 scillingas, as another example of their worth. Though there was some debate whether it meant Scillingas instead of Sceatta.
Now obviously it would probably be more trouble than it is worth to change these values to more 'historical standards'. An alternative would be to change the word 'Scillingas' to 'Sceatta' which was made mostly of silver and was worth far less, 166 were needed to equal one scilling. The only issue being it would basically be a lateral move for historicity, since sceatta were not overly common until around 680 AD.
So am I completely off-base here, with no idea or understanding of the currency of the time? It is kind of confusing, especially with Scillingas, which originally were gold coins, but were debased into silver ones, becoming the sceat/paening, but scillingas as a true gold coin still lived on. Scillingas eventually became the shilling, and lost their gold-coin status overall, while the sceat became the pence and was still valued at less than a shilling.