Quote Originally Posted by Brightamethyst View Post
Personally I'm guessing the business about gil being accepted everywhere is purely a gameplay concession. If gil was truly universal who would regulate it, mint it? Why would 4000 year old Allagan nodes in Azys La accept it and pay it out? It seems more likely to me that each nation (or collective in the case of Eorzea and the like) has its own currency and the game just converts everything to gil for us.

Stores in major trade cities like Radz and Kugane probably accept anything and everything, but that Yanxian peasant who asked me to weed his fields? He's probably paying me local coin and the game is being nice by not making me go to a currency exchange every time I change zones.
I would imagine that each piece of gil is worth its own weight in the precious metals used to mint it (unless a mint is being cheap on the sly), so people would generally accept it anywhere, which can explain its use as far out as the Azim Steppe.

I know Hingashi and perhaps Doma use “koban”. It’s the olden days Japanese oval gold coin (Meowth’s head coin) and we see it when fighting Yojimbo.