Quote Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
No, they screwed that up in the original translation. It was always Gil.
No, either

1. Gil translates from Japanese to Gold in English.

or... that's the only alternative for your theory to be reasonably possible.

Being that Final Fantasy was the first game of it's series, before the concept of gil was imagined, despite that gil became the mainstream deal in the games, it can't be a mistranslation.

There has GOT to be a Japanese-English translator who knew that gold would interpret into gold and not gil in the minds of Americans when he made the game. I mean, gold can't mean anything else. It's impossible for somebody to say gold and mean gil, especially before gil ever existed.
(Note that the translaters were fairly literate. They knew words like fiend, impertinent, and tinder.)

Rethink yourself, kiddo.