Inside Old Alvin's estate, there wasn't much that could be directly taken away.
But thankfully, nearly everything that could be taken away was ordinary money.
Besides a few exquisitely crafted pure silver ornaments set with gems, there were also four bags of silver coins—of the fifty-coin variety. And fifty paper notes worth one pound each.
There were no Gold Coins stored… but hidden in a secret compartment were an entire twelve gold bars.
This Annan was actually quite easy to understand.
In the current Kingdom of Noah, Gold Coins were actually not a common currency in circulation, but paper notes called "Gold Pounds" were.
Because the predecessor Pope of the Silver Baron, Radiance III, while studying economic laws, had proposed a theory—if people have two Gold Coins in hand, one with a higher gold content and one with a lower, people tend to spend the one with the lower value and save or even melt down the one with the higher value to make jewelry.
