Councils (currency)

Councils were a new coinage used in Darujhistan.Memories of Ice, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.76 They were minted in both silver and gold varieties.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.80 The gold variety may have been what was meant by references to High Councils.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.151/157
A couple of months after the infamous fete at Lady Simtal's the exchange rate with Pale's jakatas was two and one-third jakatas to one council (including the one council broker fee). Blend claimed 300 councils was capable of keeping a family in comfort for a couple of years.
==In Memories of Ice==
*A patrol of Malazan soldiers under the command of Corporal Picker took delivery of a consignment of ten thousand councils from Darujhistan.Memories of Ice, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.85
*Munug claimed 300 councils was nearly enough to pay for a Denul healer's treatment in Darujhistan.Memories of Ice, Chapter 2
==In Toll the Hounds==
*Two councils was a week's wages for Scorch or Leff.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.47
*An expensive bottle of wine cost one council at the Phoenix Inn.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.85 The Peacock's finest bottle of wine cost three silver councils.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.377
*Gareb claimed Torvald Nom owed him a debt of a thousand silver councils.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.95
*The captain of Lady Varada's house guard earned twenty silver councils a week, while each guard earned fifteen.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.354
*Murillio hired a horse with its tack for the day for a sum of three silver councils and a twenty council deposit. He suspected the old, slope-backed horse was worth no more than five.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.684
==Notes and references==
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