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The '''currency''' system in Path of Exile revolves around a variety of different orbs and scrolls. Each currency item serves a specific function in the [[crafting]] and enhancement of a character's equipment, or allowing restructuring of the character's passive skill tree in the case of the [[Orb of Regret]]. 

Currency items are used to pay for items in [[trading|player trading]].

==Currency items==
Currency items can be found as drops from monsters or chests, bought directly from different vendors in town, or received through the use of the [[Vendor Recipes|vendor recipe]] system by trading specific configurations of items to any town vendor. Currency items play a large role in the player to player trading system, with rare orbs able to be traded for powerful equipment, or even other types of orbs that a player might need at the time for crafting.

Basic currency items are those that have no specific drop restrictions, such as which areas or monsters they can drop from. Some examples of basic currency items are {{il|Scroll of Wisdom|Scrolls of Wisdom}}, {{il|Chaos Orb|Chaos Orbs}} and {{il|Mirror of Kalandra|Mirrors of Kalandra}}.<ref name="Basic currency items" />

===Functional currency===
These currencies have a direct purpose and can be consumed in most cases. This category includes items that tend to be common and well known, such as orbs or scrolls.
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|where=
    items.class="Stackable Currency"
    AND _pageData._categories HOLDS "Functional_Currency"
|large=1
|drop_level=1
|stack_size=1
|stack_size_currency_tab=1
|help_text=1
}}

===Shards and fragments===
Shards and fragments are obtained by [[Vendor Recipes#Shards and Fragments|selling items to vendors]] or dropping from [[Harbinger]]s. They can be combined to form certain  currency items by stacking them.
{{Query base items
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|join=items._pageID=_pageData._pageID
|where=
    items.class="Stackable Currency"
    AND _pageData._categories HOLDS "Fractured_Currency"
|large=1
|drop_level=1
|stack_size=1
|stack_size_currency_tab=1
|help_text=1
}}

===Essences===
{{main|Essences}}
Essences are items that upgrade a normal item to a rare item with predetermined modifiers.

===Prophecies===
{{main|Prophecies}}
Prophecies are given out from [[Navali]] in return for [[Silver Coin]]s. They can be sealed into [[Prophecy]] items.

===Vials===
{{main|Vial}}
Vials drop in [[the Temple of Atzoatl]] and can upgrade specific unique items to make them more powerful.
{{Query base items
|where=items.name LIKE "%Vial of%"
|large=1
|drop_level=7
|stack_size=100
|stack_size_currency_tab=5000
|help_text=15
}}

===Harbinger currency===
These shards are dropped by [[Harbinger]]s or Harbinger reward chest of other mechanics. Some currencies are dropped from such chest only or by combining shard 
{{Query base items
|where=
    items.class="Stackable Currency"
    AND (items.name LIKE "%Shard%" OR items.name = "Harbinger's Orb" OR items.name = "Ancient Orb" OR items.name = "Engineer's Orb" OR items.name = "Orb of Binding" )
|large=1
|drop_level=1
|stack_size=1
|stack_size_currency_tab=1
|help_text=1
}}

===Perandus coins===
Perandus Coins can be used to buy items from [[Cadiro Perandus]].
{{Query base items
|where=
    items.class="Stackable Currency"
    AND items.drop_leagues HOLDS "Perandus"
|large=1
|drop_level=1
|stack_size=1
|stack_size_currency_tab=1
|help_text=1
}}

===Delve currency===
Fossils and Resonators can be found in the [[Azurite Mine]] or bought from [[Niko, Master of the Depths]].
====Fossils====
{{main|Fossil}}
{{:List of fossils}}
====Resonators====
{{main|Delve Socketable Currency}}
{{:List of delve socketable currency}}

===Oils===
{{Main|Oil}}
Oils can improve [[Blighted map]]s, [[amulet]]s, [[ring]]s and certain [[unique item]]s.
{{Query base items
|where=
items.class="Stackable Currency"
 AND items.name LIKE "%Oil"
|large=1
|drop_level=7
|stack_size=100
|stack_size_currency_tab=5000
|help_text=15
}}

===Catalysts===
{{Main|Catalyst}}
Catalysts increase the quality of [[jewellery]]. They are exclusive to the [[Metamorph league]]s.
{{Query base items
|where=
items.class="Stackable Currency"
 AND items.name LIKE "%Catalyst"
|large=1
|drop_level=7
|stack_size=100
|stack_size_currency_tab=5000
|help_text=15
}}

===Discontinued currency items===
The following currency items no longer drop in the game (in any league).

{{Item table
|q_where=
    items.class="Stackable Currency"
    AND items.drop_enabled = 0
    AND items.base_item IS NULL
|large=1
|drop_level=1
|stack_size=1
|stack_size_currency_tab=1
|help_text=1
}}

==Currency exchange resources==
Exchange rates between different currency items is largely dependent on the item's scarcity and the demand for it by players willing to trade. Due to the continuously fluctuating nature of the Path of Exile economy, it is too impractical to keep an updated table of currency exchange rates here. Instead, please refer to these tools and resources:

* [http://currency.poe.trade currency.poe.trade]
* [https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/exchange/ pathofexile.com/trade]
* [http://poe.ninja poe.ninja] (single-page overview and value-over-time tracking)

==Vendor prices chart==
A number of orbs are purchasable at [[vendor]]s, and can thus be ranked like coins in normal currency. There are several progression tables below showing who sells what and what their equivalent value is in Alts ({{il|Orb of Alteration|Orbs of Alteration}}).

Currency items that have shards are ''italicised''.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!colspan="4"| '''Main Progression'''
|-
! Orb !! Price !! Value in Alts !! Location 
|-
| ''[[Orb of Alchemy]]'' || 1× [[Orb of Regret]] || 64 || Act 3 (Clarissa) 
|-
| [[Orb of Regret]] || 2× [[Orb of Scouring]] || 64 || Act 2 (Yeena) 
|-
| [[Orb of Scouring]] || 4× [[Orb of Chance]] || 32 || Act 2 (Yeena) 
|-
| [[Orb of Chance]] || 1× [[Orb of Fusing]] || 8 || Act 3 (Clarissa) 
|-
| [[Orb of Fusing]] || 4× [[Jeweller's Orb]] || 8 || Act 2 (Yeena) 
|-
| [[Chromatic Orb]] || 3× [[Jeweller's Orb]] || 6 || Act 2 (Yeena) 
|-
| [[Jeweller's Orb]] || 2× [[Orb of Alteration]] || 2 || Act 2 (Yeena) 
|-
| ''[[Orb of Alteration]]'' || 4× [[Orb of Augmentation]] || 1 || Act 1 (Nessa)
|-
| [[Orb of Augmentation]] || 4× [[Orb of Transmutation]] || 1/4 || Act 1 (Nessa)
|-
| ''[[Orb of Transmutation]]'' || 7× [[Portal Scroll]] || 1/16 || Act 1 (Nessa)
|-
| [[Portal Scroll]] || 3× [[Scroll of Wisdom]] || 1/112 || Act 1 (Nessa)
|-
| ''[[Scroll of Wisdom]]'' || baseline currency || 1/336 || {{n/a}}
|-
!colspan="4"| '''Scraps Progression'''
|-
| [[Glassblower's Bauble]] || 8× [[Blacksmith's Whetstone]] || {{n/a}} || Act 3 (Hargan) 
|-
| [[Blacksmith's Whetstone]] || 3× [[Armourer's Scrap]] || {{n/a}} || Act 2 (Greust)
|-
| [[Armourer's Scrap]] || 1× [[Blacksmith's Whetstone]] || {{n/a}} || Act 1 (Tarkleigh)
|}
Act 3's Clarissa and Act 4's Petarus and Vanja have all the Main Progression recipes.

Some [[Masters]] sell currency in bulk:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!colspan="4"| '''Master Progression'''
|-
! Orbs !! Price !! Master 
|-
| 20x [[Cartographer's Chisel]] || 12x [[Chaos Orb]] || [[Zana]]
|}

===Vendors and player economy===
Vendor prices are a base value for comparisons, [[economy|player market value]] will vary. 
Since players can't downgrade one [[Orb of Fusing]] into eight [[Orb of Alteration|Orbs of Alteration]], they may be willing to sell them for less.
High-level players will tend to accumulate rarer currencies, and when they begin rolling [[maps]] and running them, may run out of smaller denominations such as wisdom scrolls and orbs of alterations.

Don't forget that barter trading is not just what it is ''worth'', it is also what you are ''willing'' to pay.

==See also==
* [[Currency creation and trading]]

==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="Basic currency items">{{cite web
| author = Bex_GGG
| date = January 10, 2021
| title = Atlas Passive Trees in Echoes of the Atlas
| url = https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/kunten/atlas_passive_trees_in_echoes_of_the_atlas/giszir2/
| publisher = Reddit
| accessdate = January 11, 2021
}}</ref>
}}

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