What does a gil look like?

[Skyblade]

I think they use credit cards for the larger transactions in FF7 and FF8 ;]. They had used Gold Pieces prior to FF7. I think the reason the changed is that FF7's world is a lot more advanced, so using gold pieces would seem kinda out of place. So yeah, in the more advanced worlds, I think they use notes and credit cards in addition to regular coins. Maybe the Throw materia exchanges notes into coins as a part of its power .

Actually (I could be wrong, it's been a while), if I remember correctly, the earlier FFs used GP or G, but never actually called it gold, and a lot of that could be translation. We'd have to go to the original versions to tell in the pre-7 games, and I'm not compotent enough with the language to do it without a headache. If someone else wants to, though, feel free. I'm considering the topic gone now.

FFVII also uses GP in the PSX version. In the pre-VII games, they never referred directly to it, but usually, they called it money, or a whatever euphemism that we used back in the nineties.

Also for the FFX-2 Ultimania, it is possible that the gold coins for sphere break are NOT the standard currency used in FFX. If it were, why would they not use it in normal chops? The answer would be that they are 1000 years old, and therefore, not the same thing. Money can change extremely rapidly over time; even the States' currency changes once every five years, and most vending machines don't even TAKE silver dollars anymore.

And The Abominatrix is right, there is the issue of "impossible hauling amounts." However, I think a gander from the world of Pokemon answers that. It's also not unsafe to say that if your Mage knows Mini magic, they can use it on inanimate objects; seems simpler than to cast it on a living thing. Normal fighters could know how to use it on inanimate objects if there is no Magic-user around.

I thought GP was used for the Gold Saucer points, but Gil was the normal cash in FFVII.

A nice point. There is also the possibility that the "coins" had no monetary value at all. They could have just been called coins when they were discovered, because they were shaped like coins and no one knew what they were really for.

If you can carry 100 tents around with you, I think you've solved any weight issues involved with your items.