Whose face is on the Gil coin?

[Altimis]

Why Ul'dah coin is not Sutana face instead of that big black Highlander? (assume)

IMHO, That not gil coin, its Company Seals something, if its Company Seals coin, its make sense Ul'dah coin have Black Highlander face (sorry again, forget name : P) since he is head of Ul'dah company.

[Lucke]

Why Ul'dah coin is not Sutana face instead of that big black Highlander? (assume)

IMHO, That not gil coin, its Company Seals something, if its Company Seals coin, its make sense Ul'dah coin have Black Highlander face (sorry again, forget name : P) since he is head of Ul'dah company.

Those people are the leaders of the GC, not the city-state. Although, I guess you could say The Admiral runs Limsa, and the Seedseer runs Grid...Raubahn is in charge of the Flames.

[UlricCraft]

To assume gil has a standardised form is naive.
Currency has multiple values to assist in exchange of fluctuating price of different product.
10p coin, 50p coin, £1 coin.
However, currency does not typically share the same name, value and shape if it is produced from different economic backgrounds.

Our coffers show gil. Not Limsa-gil, Ul-gil or Grid-gil.
I'd say it's a safe bet to assume the images above are seals.

We need to acknowledge that Final Fantasy as a franchise and fantasy RPG games in general have glaring issues with money.
-You killed a cow-
Obtained 10g!

To say 'something drops gil, that means their heritage is valid source' is nonsense.
If Garleans drop gil, we can't confirm they use gil because we can't trade anywhere with them.

The only way to confirm is through utilising this currency in an established trading facility or shop!

A more pressing question on my mind rather than 'Who is on the gil' is; which governing body do all city-states and alliances bow down to and reproduce their currency!
You can't ascertain who might be on the gil without knowing which economy it originated from!

Or they just came together and said:
"Yo let's put a God on the coin and shake hands"

My money is on Ul'Dah produces the coin, but the city-state leaders of old came together and agreed upon the value.

As for who is on the coin?
Female Hyur! :s

[Myranda]

A more pressing question on my mind rather than 'Who is on the gil' is; which governing body do all city-states and alliances bow down to and reproduce their currency!
You can't ascertain who might be on the gil without knowing which economy it originated from!

This was my point of having mentioned Euros in earlier posts. Why must there be a single mint, produced only by one country? The countries of the Euro Zone have all agreed to share the same currency, but each country still mints their own version of the coin (well, the obverse side is standardized, but they have freedom to customize the design of the reverse side). It's completely plausible for all 3 Eorzean city states to have their own mints while having those coins honored as valid currency in the other cities as part of a single gil standard.

[UlricCraft]

(well, the obverse side is standardized, but they have freedom to customize the design of the reverse side). It's completely plausible for all 3 Eorzean city states to have their own mints while having those coins honored as valid currency in the other cities as part of a single gil standard.

Oh I agree! That's totally plausible!
I however wouldn't bet on that being the case.

My reasoning is that our symbol as an adventurer, regardless of starting city-state or grand company, the icon remains the same.
There's no leading evidence to say that they're individual, but there's no real evidence saying otherwise...
Disappointing.

Interesting side note nonetheless!

My gut feeling is that we're not going to get any concise information on this subject until SE release a 'bank' of sorts into the game. And hell, with enough people complaining about inventory space, I wouldn't imagine we're going to have to wait long!

[silverwell]

Why Ul'dah coin is not Sutana face instead of that big black Highlander? (assume)

IMHO, That not gil coin, its Company Seals something, if its Company Seals coin, its make sense Ul'dah coin have Black Highlander face (sorry again, forget name : P) since he is head of Ul'dah company.

IMO, he looks mo' white than black to me.
It's his hair. It's too much like white-folk's hair (brown and thin).
He does live in the desert... So...
Just 'cuz he got a tan, don't make him black, bro!

Side note...
His name is Raubahn.

[Altimis]

IMO, he looks mo' white than black to me.
It's his hair. It's too much like white-folk's hair (brown and thin).
He does live in the desert... So...
Just 'cuz he got a tan, don't make him black, bro!

Side note...
His name is Raubahn.

LOL! No offend!!! No racist concern/issue ^^ I like black peoples too, they are kind and cool

[Lucke]

Those coins are not seals. Seals are paper. If you played 1.0 and got a Writ of Passage from the CE, that's the same thing as GC seals. Look at the seal icon and look at the writ. Same design.

Seals are made of paper, gil is made of metal. Those coins are the commemorative coin that you got in 1.0 when it was shutting down. It was worth like...40k seals or something. It was given to us by SE so we could get max rank in the GC before 1.0 went down.

[Wadoka]

...His name is Raubahn...

The full name given, Raubahn Aldynn, is a pretty transparently-lampshaded shift from Arabic FWIW. Raubahn Aldynn... Raubahn al-Din. Just as one of the most famous warriors of all time was Salah al-Din (Saladin), the nemesis of Crusaders.

[Enkidoh]

Interesting etymology of Raubahn's name, although it's generally accepted his name in FFXIV is actually a reference to the Captain of the Immortal Lions of the same name in the Empire of Aht Urhgan in FFXI. But it's entirely possible the name originally came from that source as you stated Wadoka. That's really interesting. Thanks for that bit of info!