Pinnun

The Orbin Pinnun (symbol: ₱ or Ᵽ) is the official currency of the Orbin Federation. It was created from the Lakemark Pinnun (Pinnun being a corruption of a native word which translates roughly as "unit by which men do conduct their monetary transactions". It is administered and printed by the Bank of Orb.

History
Prior the Unification, the various polities of Orb used different currencies. Wessex, Daawinaki, and Little Current used currencies called the Pound; Lakemark, Mashkosi, Minising, and Odaawa all used the Pinnun; Great Duck Island used the Crown (despite not being a monarchy); the Temikahah territories meanwhile, used many currencies, including traditional tribal means of trade.

In 1928, during the Unification, Cedric D'Cain drew up a plan for a universal Orbin tender he planned to call the Orbin Pound. It would be identical the Great British Pound (and possibly pegged to it as well). In response, Henry Flogwood layed out plans for the Manitoulin Dollar, which was modeled more closely on the American and Canadian Dollars.

By the completion of the Unification in 1936, no plan for the currency of the new Orbin Federation had yet been decided on, and Premier Templin could not make up his mind, so he decided to leave the issue alone and allowed each province to continue to print their traditional currencies and made them all legal throughout the Federation.

The Pinnun as we know it finally came to fruition under the government of Premier Benson. In 1965, roughly a year into his reign, Benson commissioned artists from across the country to design images for the banknotes and hired sculptors to design reliefs for the coins. In 1966, the Orbin Pinnun was first released into circulation. The money was immensely popular with the people, and Benson issued a Premiorial Declaration that all traditional tender would be superceded on the first day of 1970.

From roughly 1968 through the 70s, the Pinnun was an immensely strong currency. This was due in part to the fact that while the economies of the United States and Canada were fully developed and thus subject to rising and falling, the Orbin economy was developing and rapidly industrializing, and had nowhere to go but up.

However, in the 1980s, the Pinnun began to drop in value. At its peak, ₱1.00 equalled US$1.14 on March 29, 1976, by June 1985 the Pinnun had fallen to ₱1.00 equalling US$0.46, the lowest point the currency has ever reached. The Pinnun began to pick up again under Premier Vivix in 1993, and peaked at ₱1.00=US$0.90 on October 10, 1995. Since then, the currency has hovered between US$0.77 and US$0.84.

Decimalization
One Pinnun is divided into one hundred Pinnettes. Pinnettes are expressed in writing like this: 15p. An intentionally archaic way to write a price in Pinnuns is: ₱5/50p. Pinnun banknotes are widely considered the most beautiful (and indeed complex) in the world. They are divided up as follows: † ₱1,000 and ₱10,000 notes were never intended for public use, serving only for internal purposes within the Bank of Orb, and were discontinued in 2000 under Premier Turner when the bank switched to digital for these uses.

Value
This chart shows the value of the Pinnun from introduction to the present. On May 31, 2013, the total breakdown for the Pinnun was as follows: