This is an excellent supplement for DMs who like to add immersive details to their campaigns, especially the Forgotten Realms, but with enough detail to be applied to any fantasy world. Well done!

Has things I didn't know I needed, like a VERY handy "what can you buy for 1 copper" or "what can you buy for 1 silver" tables, which are very good in creating a live world for you and your players. Denominations names is also very useful. The Forgotten Realms Currency Table is why I bought this product. Other parts might not be as useful (like, why would anyone go to the trouble of enchanting every piece of coin so it disintegrate in sunlight? Magic takes time and effort). This book didn't need monsters. The design of the book is very nice and there's plenty of art; I was under the impression there would be more drawings of coins, but there's plenty, and more importantly, there is a description of what each coin might look like.

I like describing treasure and my players find a lot of gold, and this is a really good resource for me because the descriptions would be more interesting and vivid.

TLDR: Coins of the Realms easily gets a solid 5/5.

This resource is the perfect way to add a little bit more immersion to the locale your group is adventuring in. Sometimes the best way to make a far away kingdom feel alien or give a huge metropolis an imperial motif is to flavor the mundane items everybody sees regularly, and this adds that flavor to money in spades. This is super effective if you're running a campaign that takes place in different realms or involves several governments or factions - one of the first things your players will have to do is figure out the currency system in place when they travel somewhere, and that alone is enough to make a new region feel extremely foreign.

The information included covers everything from types of alternative money (with lore and local slang for it) to gods and goddesses that deal with the economy and coin-based monsters that can be run to spice up encounters involving merchants or treasure hordes; and the author has nicely presented all of it in easy to understand and well-organized tables and text blocks.

This booklet could easily pass off as part of an official WoTC release between the overall look of the product and the length and depth of the lore included for something as basic as money. The price being asked is more than reasonable for a release of this quality and, as one of the staples of a good release, a printer-friendly version is included for those of us who aren't operating a commercial-grade press in our basement.

As someone who loves the heady froth of immersion, this book was super interesting to me. First and foremost, let me say I love the influences & references credits. It helps me go see where this information all came from.

The layout is wonderful, with a decent balance of art, tables, and text. Lists of existing things you can buy with each type of coin is great, and the alternative coins are equally great. Steel and Iron coins are something we see often in fantasy fiction and so having a good basis for exchange rate is nice and the non-coin currencies are great for immersion (seriously, hand your players Shaar rings or Bond Bells and watch them turn into covetous little dragons).

I can go on and on and on but for 2 bucks, I just say throw down and grab it IF you're the sort of DM that wants a more "real" feeling Forgotten Realms OR you want inspiration for how to do coinage in your non-FR games.