Mintel

The official currency of the Freethinker Commonwealth is the Mintel (FMT), in circulation since the country acquired independence from the Midlonian Empire in 1885. The Mintel is the only official legal tender within the entirity of the Commonwealth (although within Freeports it shares this status with several foreign currencies), and is printed (in decade-long cycles) by the Freethinker Central Reserve, the independent National Bank. The Mintel is a decimalised currency, divided into a hundred subunits known as Coppers.

History

Before Independence

From 1656 to 1885, given its position as a colony and then a dominion, the Freethinker Commonwealth used the Midlonian Pound as it's legal currency. Local designs for the old legal currency were printed when the Commonwealth became an independent dominion within the Midlonian Empire.

The Mintel

In 1885 the newly formed government of the Freethinker Commonwealth voted to commission an entirely new currency in order to complete the societal break with Midlonia.

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