As a related aside, apparently the Lone Islands use Greek coins. Gumpas's coin pouch went up on eBay earlier this week, and then was removed...I guess the seller decided to wait on several listings. But the coins were based on Athenian Owls. I wasn't overly impressed by the originality of the Dawn Treader film designers.

I like your idea about the Trees. I've been pondering doing some replicas of Narnian coins. What do you think they might look like?

Yeah, they weren't very original... though I did like the Dawn Treader itself.

I've assumed that "Lions" were gold and "Trees" were silver. With my headcanon of Aslan's image being on both sides of the gold coin, I wonder if perhaps one side would depict His kindness and mercy while the other depicted His justice and judgement? Haven't put a ton of thought into that particular bit, but that's why I've got at the moment.
I imagine the "Trees" would look leafy, possibly bearing apples as well (as opposed to a bare tree, like the Tree of Gondor) on one side. The other side, which I assume would have the image(s) of the monarch(s), would bear a profile like so many coins have throughout history.

Maybe the Trees had a dryad's profile on one side and the tree on the other? In which case there could be different Trees, like pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters in our world.

Ooh, that's a cool idea too!

I think the Lone Islands would probably be using the Calormene Crescent and Minum. During the Golden Age they might've used the Lions and Trees.

I don't know what the coins would look like other than if C.S. Lewis had compared them to Telmarine coins, the Telmarine coins would probably be described as having rough edges and being curved instead of flat so that Miraz's picture is more likely to come up when you toss them.

Haha, I like that thought about Telmarines' "heads" turning up in a coin toss every time!

For some reason, I've always thought the "Trees" were connected to the two trees that sprouted from Uncle Andrew's coins! Like, maybe, Narnians thought there was some connection between precious metals and trees because of that event? Honestly, I don't even know what I was thinking, just that there was a connection!

That's what I always thought that Trees would be, until I read this thread and got some new ideas. 😛

Oh, that hadn't crossed my mind either, marmota! Hmm....

@Marmota: That /is/ an idea! I wonder, now, if the trees still existed...

I fancy if there was a particular tree the coin was based on, it would be the tree of protection that Digory planted, but I do like the idea of them considering there to be a connection between precious metals and trees because of the silver and gold trees. And that's true Hermit about the Lone Islands using Calormene currency, at least during the time they had close trade relations with Calormen. In VDT it's in use in the market place. I once had a go at making some Narnian coins out of sculpey. I had some large copper looking coins with crescent moons on them for Calormene crescents and was working on Gold coins with Aslan's face, silver coins with trees, and smaller copper coins with a leaf to show that it was like a part of a "tree".

I had some large copper looking coins with crescent moons on them for Calormene crescents and was working on Gold coins with Aslan's face, silver coins with trees, and smaller copper coins with a leaf to show that it was like a part of a "tree".

Those sound really cool, Swanwhite! And that's an interesting idea about there being "leaves" as well as "trees". I like that. 🙂

I like that, too! I think it's entering my headcanon. 🙂

Random idea: what it the Tree coins were wooden? Like wooden coins they give out at Vacation Bible School.