User blog comment:Knakveey/Game of Thrones: The Lost Lords Super Walkthrough/@comment-5014364-20150314001254

Oh crud, I wrote in that anecdote about Currency but too late, I've realized my error:

A knight's horse is worth about 1 Gold Dragon during the main novels.

However, during the Tales of Dunk and Egg prequels, about 90 years before the main novels, prices are about three times greater (at point point during the prequels they say that a knight's horse is worth three Gold Dragons'').

The problem is that I was looking over the notes quickly and didn't realize that the value I quoted for a knight's full armor was given during the prequels...and is thus three times greater than things are worth "now" in the games.

So...doing some math here...if 800 Silver Stags bought a full suit of armor in the prequel era, and 210 Silver Stags in a Gold Dragon...a full suit of armor more probably costs around 1.3 Gold Dragons.

You get the point: some people hear "the currency of the Seven Kingdoms is the Gold Dragon" and they start using it as if it's a dollar or Pound Sterling....when really, commoners would probably never even see a Gold Dragon in real life, much less own one. It goes from Gold Dragons to Silver Stags to Copper Pennies - with 56 Copper Pennies to the Stag, making for 1 Gold Dragon = 11,760 Copper Pennies.

If you're looking for "everyday amounts", recall that a baker in Season 1 of the TV series told Arya (as he did in the book) that a loaf of bread costs 3 Copper Pennies.

The War of the Five Kings causes starvation-level conditions in King's Landing in book/season 2 (before the Tyrells show up with food supplies) leading to hyper-inflation; Tyrion is shocked to see melons selling for 6 Copper Pennies each, and a single skinny piglet selling for 980 Copper Pennies.