1 gold ducatto: CM.380-2013

Maker(s)

Profound Decisions
China (Production place)

Entities

• 1 gold ducatto
• Toy money

Categories

• Token

Description

Profound Decisions LARP, token for the game Maelstrom. The Ducatto LARP tokens were originally commissioned from a Chinese manufacturing company in late 2002 or early 2003 by Matthew Pennington, founder of Profound Decisions, to be used as one of four fictional currencies in the 2003-start game Maelstrom. Maelstrom was the first commercial LARP game to be produced by Profound Decisions company ("PD"). http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/home?1
At the time production of the four currencies represented a large financial investment in the new game and was used as a symbol of a commitment to higher physrepping standards by the organisers, as most other LARP systems at the time used plastic or paper currency which does not look as authentic.
In 2012 the Maelstrom campaign ended and the metal coins from the Ducatto currency were gifted to Cambridge University Treasure Trap LARP society (one of several societies selected for such a gift in recognition of the large number of players they had sent to the PD game). CUTT used the coins to replace the home-made paper physreps for the fictional schilling currency of their own LARP game, Treasure Trap. (This remains the current situation). The local Durham, Oxford and York LARP societies got the other currencies. Notably, Durham University Treasure Trap got the Maelstrom Mark currency which included shilling coins to physrep their pre-existing shilling currency - CUTT derived directly from DUTT with the first meeting in Jan 2003 and had imported the name of their currency along with other system and setting details.