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Gold is the currency of all NPC merchant transactions in Diablo II, and is required to [[gamble]], to purchase new items, to repair damaged equipment, and to obtain necessities such as potions, scrolls, and keys. Gold is readily available; monsters drop it constantly, it falls in showers from chests of all types, and loose piles of it can be found scattered about the ground in various dungeons.
While gold is required for NPC purchases, it's seldom used in the player to player economy. Gold is too common, too hard to carry in large quantities, and since none of the best items in the game can be purchased (a few extremely rare magical items aside, which cost more time than gold, in the form of endless NPC merchant visits) with it, players generally engage in a barter-based economy, trading items for items, or else using small items such as [[Stone of Jordan|Stones of Jordan]], perfect gems, or [[runes]] for a sort of default currency that replaces or supplements straight item to item bartering.
