Gil

Gil is the most widely accepted form of in-game currency. The amount of gil you hold is indicated on the currency panel. The gil cap is  999,999,999 for the player and each retainer, while players on a Free Trial are capped at  300,000.

Earning Gil

Players can earn gil by participating in a wide variety of activities. These include:

• Duty roulettes -  75,120 per day, plus  53,760 for the "adventurer in need" role
• Challenge Log entries - up to  95,000 per week
• donating items to the Doman Enclave - up to  40,000 per week
• quests
• guildleves
• dungeons
• Treasure Hunt
• Gardening
• selling items on the market board
• reselling items via retainers or directly to vendors
• sending retainers on ventures and selling items that they return
• desynthesizing unsellable gear and selling the raw materials or using them for crafting

Saving Gil

In addition to earning gil, players may want to limit their expenses while playing. Methods of saving gil include:

• using aetheryte tickets or teleportation consumables instead of paying teleportation, airship, or ferry fees
• reducing teleportation fees by setting "favored", "free" and "home" aetheryte destinations
• reducing teleportation fees by using consumables or Free Company Actions
• earning new armor and weapons from dungeons, leves, and quests instead of purchasing gear from vendors
• crafting one's own gear and weapons
• waiting until market board prices drop before purchasing certain items - luxuries such as glamour items and mounts sell for less and less as an expansion ages

Transferring gil

Between Players

Gil can be exchanged between players via direct trade, by purchasing or selling items on the Market Board, or by sending letters through the Delivery Moogle.

Between Characters

Mannequins in apartments or normal player housing can be used to transfer gil from one character to another (e.g. the player's alternate character). The character receiving the gil can put up an item for sale for the amount of gil to be transferred. The character transferring the gil will then purchase the item. This transaction is not subject to the market board tax.

Lore

History

When the Sixth Umbral Calamity came, laying waste to the land and swallowing up once-proud nations of magi and wise men, the currencies minted and circulated by these civilizations lost their value, and the economy of Eorzea returned to a primitive system of barter and trade. As the realm recovered and rebuilt itself after the dawn of the Sixth Astral Era, the currencies of Mhach and Amdapor came back into limited use, their values assigned roughly according to the worth of their component metals.

As city-states and nations came to flourish, certain interests took steps to mint their own currencies, with Sharlayan and Ishgard quick to follow suit. As contact between nations in these times was limited at best, no effort was made to introduce a universal standard, and for years, many myriad currencies were exchanged throughout the land. This changed in the years of peace that followed the Autumn War. Trade and diplomatic relations between nations flourished, and for reasons of economic convenience, the demand for a universal currency became stronger.

In the year 1477 of the Sixth Astral Era, the leaders of Eorzea's six great city-states came together and reached the decision to mint a universal currency to be used the realm over. So it came to be that gil, a coinage once used by the ancient Allagan empire, was reinstituted as the standard currency for all the land.

Design

In times of eld, coins would typically bear designs inspired by heroes, leaders, or religious imagery of the nations that minted them. With the introduction of gil as a universal currency, a consensus of experts from all nations made the decision to adopt neutral designs—ones not rooted in the traditions of any one culture or nation—in the interest of avoiding needless debate. To this end, the face of Nymeia the Spinner was chosen to grace the one-hundred gil coin.

An exception to the rule can be found in the commemorative one-gil coins issued by the grand companies for Foundation Day, which are emblazoned with the images of the leaders of the respective city-states.

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