You can also "vendor bank" where you buy something that sells and resells for close to the same value (like a cracked staff) and you can convert smaller coin to larger this way. You lose some in the process, but a 10-15% hit is sometimes worth skipping the trip all the way to an actual banker:
[Sun Nov 03 11:36:44 2019] Loric Weaver tells you, 'That'll be 1 platinum 2 gold 5 silver 9 copper for the Cracked Staff.'
[Sun Nov 03 11:36:46 2019] You give 1 platinum 2 gold 5 silver 9 copper to Loric Weaver.
[Sun Nov 03 11:36:50 2019] Loric Weaver tells you, 'I'll give you 1 platinum 1 gold 4 silver for the Cracked Staff.'
[Sun Nov 03 11:36:53 2019] You receive 1 platinum 1 gold 4 silver from Loric Weaver for the Cracked Staff(s).
In the above example I was able to convert a large amount of small change into 1pp and it cost me ~ 1.2 gold to do so. This is due to the fact that you'll automatically spend your smaller denomination coins first - so if I had 1500 copper (and nothing else) after this exchange I'd have 1pp 1gp 4sp and 241cp and would have dropped a nice chunk of coin weight.
This is also another reason some weight-conscious players carry gems (a stack of 20 still weighs 0.1) as currency. A peridot is ~ 10pp so handing someone a couple for a port or a rez (clerics love them!) is a perfectly amicable exchange.
-Mcoy
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