Money Money is some amount of copper pieces ( ) , silver pieces ( ) , gold pieces ( ) , or a combination of any those types of coins . Your current total is shown at the bottom right of your open backpack window . Using money . You can spend it at a vendor NPC , trade , mail it to other player character s , pay for a flight from the flight master , bid with it for an item at the Auction House , use it as a deposit to auction at the Auction House , or just save it . Other uses are to buy additional bag slots at the bank or hunter s can buy stable slot s for their pet s from a stable master . Obtaining money . You can get money by looting dead mob s , completing quest s , selling item s to vendor NPCs , via trade or mail from other player characters , or by selling an item at the Auction House . If you use money to put a deposit down for auctioning an item , you lose the deposit if it doesn ' t sell or if you cancel the auction , but any failed bids are returned via mail . The accumulation of wealth within World of Warcraft is almost as complex a science as it is in the real world , and thousands of words have been written on how to do it . Types of coins . " Coin " as a term can also refer to the currency of " World of Warcraft " , though its use is mostly limited to questgivers giving out monetary rewards to players . Conversion rates . NOTE : You can never have more than — if you get to , it will automatically change to in the silver column . The same is true when you get to , if you add another copper then it will automatically change to . There is no conversion rate for gold coins , so you may have more than . Technical considerations . The amount of money on a server is not constant . From a technical point of view , money can be " created " ( ie , added to the player economy ) and " destroyed " ( removed from the player economy ) . Money is " created " when : Money is " destroyed " when : Money is also traded between players in exchange for items and services , but this does not itself affect the amount of money in circulation . While leveling a character from 1 to level cap , a player naturally " creates " hundreds of gold , though much of it is " destroyed / spent " by repair costs , training costs and personal spending . Since a character starts with no money , it is clear that a perfectly new server has no money in circulation . As the server ages , money will be " created " at a greater rate , as players kill mobs ( monsters ) that drop more money and do quest with larger rewards . However , the amount of money " destroyed " also increases with age . Players obtain better gear which has higher repair cost . More players raid which means more total repairs , as raiding increases the average players chance of death . Older servers also see an increased significant one - time destruction ' s of money as people buy increased riding skills and expensive mounts . Deflation . There is also economic deflation on many realms since gold farmer s and bots have a dramatic effect on the local realm economy by selling items at reduced price on the Auction House . This is equally annoying to players as it means their own item value decreases over time . The launch of the Burning Crusade patch had a predictable effect on the economy , as many level 70 players now have gold reserves in excess of 10 , 000 where before few players would have seen more than 1 or 2 thousand after quite some time at level 60 . Auction house prices have soared as a result , and Twink items are even higher in price than usual . Another effect of the patch was that the market became flooded with " high " - level ( level 60 ) items such as Brilliant Chromatic Scale which was already declining in price on certain realms pre - TBC ( reportedly decreasing from 100g per scale to 5g per scale on some of the more economically manic realms . ) These items are now worth much less than they were pre - TBC which has meant players who weren ' t able to sell them before the expansion were screwed out of quite a lot of gold . Of course , the average wealth isn ' t affected by auction - house transactions , but a lot of players have been put out by the fluctuating prices . Economy summary . The WoW economy will always fluctuate , and large events such as the Burning Crusade launch will have a knock - on effect . The best advice to any player worried about an economic decline on their realm is not to buy any gold from gold sellers , as this will have a worse effect on the economy . Also , make sure you price your auctions based on market - value and not just a hopeful stab - in - the - dark guess . Although it is technically against the ToS to affect other ' s gameplay in a negative way ( including the economy ) , it ' s generally accepted that under - pricing doesn ' t count as it doesn ' t affect the average wealth of players on your realm . It ' s also generally accepted that underpricing is very annoying , since other players will find it difficult to sell items at the correct price , and it may even lower the value of the item you ' re selling . Slight underpricing ( up to around 10 % of market value off ) is acceptable , however . Although little is known about the actual average WoW player ' s wealth , there is much speculation about it and wherever you look you ' ll find a different figure . Blizzard has yet to publish anything regarding the economic status of any of the servers in any country . Gold limit . As of Patch 4 . 0 . 1 , the gold cap is . Before that , the most money a single character could carry was ( or ) , because Blizzard stores a player ' s money as a signed 32 - bit integer . Screenshots of players reaching the gold limit have been taken on both American and German servers . As of Legion , however , the gold cap has been raised to 9 , 999 , 999 gold 99 silver 99 copper . For trial accounts , the gold cap is . History . In the past , all coinage was in gold . After three wars , silver and copper have come into use . Platinum coinage has not come to use yet . The Defias Brotherhood enjoys marring Stormwind minted coins creating " cross - eyed coins ” which is a sign of treason to the throne . Some coins that are not minted any longer are worth more to some people .