Joseph Orlando

Chapter 17 - Latinum (Patreon)

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2021-08-12 12:00:07

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The commander pulled out a miniature holo-cube and passed it to me. I examined it a moment, before pulling another 7 strips of latinum out of my pockets (cargo pants for the win!), I placed the latinum on the table in two nice stacks of five. The famous chime when the strips made when they clinked together was proof that they were real. 20 strips equaled 1 bar of latinum, so the half a bar that I was offering was probably too much for this place, but I wasn’t really concerned. Starfleet would be ultimately paying for it.

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Latinum

Latinum was a rare silver-colored liquid metal that was used as currency by the Ferengi Alliance, the Cardassians, and many other worlds. For ease of transaction, latinum was usually suspended within bits of gold as a binding medium to produce gold-pressed latinum. (DS9: "Who Mourns for Morn?") Smuggling latinum was considered a crime by the Enolians.