How much is a credit worth?

We all know that 250,000 credits (which I believe was the bounty on Han Solo) was considered a LOT, and 15 million credits is enough to buy a small private warfleet.

But how much IS a credit worth, anyway? Is it more than a US dollar?

 

is it even possible to compare two currencies from two different UNIVERSES...

not to mention the fact that one of the two only exists in a imaginary land...

this is not a flame to you... but i think that your post is a little off.

 

Not the first time it was asked.

UCLA is right it's a question you can't really answer, given the two different universes.

Money currency is hard to determine, since basically it represents a certain amount of gold. Who knows what a credit is worth ? It may represent a certain amount of Nova Crystals, but who knows what's more worthy ? Gold, or Nova Crystals ?

So, in fact, the question can't be answered.

 

Yes nova crystals they existed in WEG sourcebooks, . Specifically I saw it in the CSA sourcebook, .

Perhaps it was originally listed inside of the brian daley novels?

 

10 credits is apparently enough for a meal, and 250 is more than enough to get fuel and supplies for a trip from Kamino to Coruscant, according to Boba Fett book.

 

I'd say a credit's approximate exchange value is one to four USD.

 

Actually the question can be answered. Just take two items that are found in both universes (a meal, a coil of rope, a knife, a pair of boots) and compare averages. I think costs like these can be found in the roleplaying guides.

Dan

 

Sorry to disagree, but no, I think it can't be answered. (Well, on a pure economic level, at least... If Sourcebooks, or whatever the source, says it can be, and give a curreny exchange rate, then I'm fine with it.) Let's take the example of a common good like a knife. You can't know its value, because you don't know the Bid/Ask rate for the metal that compose its blade (say, for example if far more metal is produced in the GFFA compared to the Earth, relatively of course). Plus, the blade might be composed of another metal than the one we use on Earth (in fact it probably is since I guess durasteel is different from Earth steel). The same logic applies to something like cereals, and so on. The problem is that you don't know the status of the GFFA market.

 

I think of it as a Pound Sterling. I don't have the "pound" sign on my computer, so all you lovely Brits don't get mad. I think it's worth more than a dollar, definitely, unless bartering makes money secondary. Bartering is always helpful and can't be regulated in such a large place.

 

um...didn't come here for an economy leason....already pasted that class.

 

A credit is worth aproximately a bit.

 

I'd think that a credit is worth the same as a dollar. I'm sure Star Wars would have used dollars, but it was too close to the real world.

 

I always figured "credits" were like "dollars". They have "decicreds", which I figured were like 1/10th of a dollar -- a dime.

 

If i recall correctly, Credits seemed a lot more in the lando Calrisian Trilogy

 

I can safely say that one credit is worth 4 units. Right IATDS?

 

Well, one has to take into account that New Republic credits are not worth the same as imperial credits, as shown in the Thrawn Trilogy exchange between Luke and Ferrier, and Han's recent NJO reference to Jacen's bounty, and how it worked out to be about the same as his old bounty in Imperial credits. Also, although I can't think of any references, there was probably inflation taking place for both the Empire and the New Republic. So the value of a credit depends both on what type of credit you are talking about, and what time frame you refer to. It would also probably depend on the planet. Republic credits weren't worth anything on Tatooine during Episode 1.

 

True. Well as Han suggested in EoV II, I think, one New Republic credit is worth less than one Imperial credit.

 

Maybe there is inflation between books.

 

I can't imagine the New Republic Credits being worth the paper it's printed on, with the galaxy in the situation it is.

 

Isn't the ownership of Imperial credits (perhaps over a certain amount) illegal in the NR?

I am going by what I remember when Isard gets busted in the customs line in Isard's Revenge.

 

Wasn't it Dr. Gast, in Solo Command, not Isard in Isard's Revenge? Isard got fried in IR, if i'm not mistaken.

 

um...didn't come here for an economy leason....already pasted that class.


Did you pasted grammar, too?

 

how much is a dollar worth?

as much as someone is willing to give you for it

 

1 credit is worth exactly... one credit