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"Interesting. It appears to be gold."
"You're right."
"Is that metal valuable on your worlds?"
"It is on some of them, but mostly it's used in manufacturing."
―Senior Captain Thrawn and General Anakin Skywalker[1]
WupiupiPropsKenobi

Wupiupi coins were minted from gold.

Gold was a shiny, warm yellow-colored metal that was valued by sentient beings[2] on some worlds.[1] It could be turned into forms of currency, like the peggat[2] and the wupiupi,[3] or fashioned into jewellery.[4] On Tatooine, water was such a scarce commodity that it was considered to be more valuable than gold.[5]

While valuable on some planets, gold, by the time of the Clone Wars, was mostly used in manufacturing. The Techno Union was known to use gold in droid manufacturing during the Clone Wars. The sashin-leaf mead[6] and the wax secreted by Vashkan apidactyls had a color comparable to that of gold,[7] as did the chromium finish of C-3PO's plating.[8] Tibanna was considered to be a gaseous gold.[9]

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The real chemical element, gold, is symbolized in the periodic table of elements by the letters "Au", derived from the Latin aurum. This inspired the naming of a similar element in the Star Wars universe: Aurodium.[10]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thrawn: Alliances
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Battlefront: Twilight Company
  3. ↑ Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
  4. ↑ Heir to the Jedi
  5. ↑ Star Wars: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel
  6. ↑ Aftermath
  7. ↑ "The Perfect Weapon"
  8. ↑ Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide
  9. ↑ The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem
  10. ↑ StarWars.com Bucket's List Extra: 9 Fun Facts from "The Triple Dark" - Star Wars Resistance on StarWars.com (backup link)

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