Patrick's revision of the gold coin formula this time was intended to lower the cost of the coins, allowing one portion of gold to serve the value of several portions.
Moreover, once Patrick's magical gold coins began circulating on the market, their anti-counterfeiting properties, coupled with Patrick's plan to have trade officials expand trade and apply a full range of threats and inducements to the goblins, would get the goblins to use Quel'Thalas's Arcane Currency for settlements.
In the future, Silvermoon City would increase its purchases of gold, yet gold of fifty-percent purity could be used as pure gold of 99.9-percent purity. How was that any different from playing dirty?
And that was not all. Even if the gold coins others sold them were exchanged one for one by weight, the coins they paid out contained only 50% gold-a net profit of 50%. How was this kind of business any different from robbery? Honestly, if trade volume rose, even robbery could not compare with Patrick's method.
Moreover, as a Magic Kingdom, using arcane magic to prevent counterfeiting was perfectly normal. Silvermoon City's Arcane Constructs were second to none in all of Azeroth. Among the humans, perhaps Dalaran could compare somewhat with Silvermoon City, but what did Dalaran have left now?
The city had been razed by the Burning Legion, and almost its entire population had been killed or wounded. All that remained of the once-prosperous city was the Dalaran Crater. The sole stroke of luck was the Violet Citadel secretly built in the lake, and the current Violet Citadel had absolutely no ability to contend with Quel'Thalas.
Quel'Thalas had not suffered the loss of ninety percent of its population, and its foundations, accumulated over thousands of years, were immensely rich. Whether in material resources or economic strength, it was second