The Wiki says : if you mint silver bars into 250 silver coins, you commit the act of forgery and you leave scents. It doesn't speak about debasement at all and don't explain the difference between forgery and debasement. In fact, I think it's the same thing (maybe a change of word in the game) but it's not clear at all. I have read the wiki about silver coins few weeks ago when I have found my first silver vein and I didn't mint it in coins because of that.
And I think I'm not the only one who has understood that and it will change the life of many new players. I understand why debasement is a crime (like in RL it's forbidden to lower the amount / rate of a precious metal in a coin. It's false money). Please have a look on the page of the silver coins :
http://salemwiki.info/index.php/Silver_Coins and tell me what a new player can understand.
I'm not complaining, just pointing a wrong or at least incomplete information.
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