so, what's the denomination chart?
“This is for you,” Shallan said, taking out a ruby mark and handing it to Yalb.
“Brightness, this is too much!”
“It’s partially out of thanks,” she said, “but is also to pay you to stay here and wait for a few hours, in case I return.”
“Wait a few hours for a firemark? That’s wages for a week’s sailing!”
Diamond marks, each worth five diamond chips. A single chip would buy a loaf of bread.
A sapphire sphere was worth about twenty-five times a diamond one. As Kaladin made one diamond mark a day, a skymark was worth as much as Kaladin made in half a month. Of course, a common darkeyed soldier earned five clearmarks a day, which would make this a week’s wages to them.
Those are some long months. 50 days. Weeks are 5 days.
It was five diamond marks to a garnet.
An emerald broam was the largest denomination of sphere, worth a thousand diamond chips. Ten of them was more than her trip to Kharbranth had cost by several magnitudes!
Kaladin looked down at the sphere. An emerald chip. More than he normally earned in two weeks.
He would earn 10 clearmarks in 2 weeks (if you include his bribe to Gaz, 8, if you include income from selling knobweed sap, considerably more)
This single emerald broam was worth what a bridgeman slave would make in two hundred days.
If what were told earlier was true, shouldn't it be
exactly what a bridgeman makes in 200 days?
There, she used all her remaining spheres to fill the oversized goblet lamp. To get enough light, she was forced to use spheres of all nine colors and all three sizes, so the illumination was patchy and varied.
Despite all the various denominations, How many have we seen used so far? And does that quote mean that only 9 and not 10 gems are used in money?
so, a chip is worth 1/5 of it's respective mark. Is a broam worth 5x what a mark is? That would put an emerald chip at 8 clearmarks... And it would put the 100 diamond broams at 2.5 emerald broams. I can't decide if these sound right or not. As far as the worth of an emerald broam: 1000 loaves of bread. A slave is 1.5-3 emerald broams, depending on quality.