Mobs in Velks should only drop Platinum and Silver
 

Live server Velketor's Labyrinth mobs that dropped coin never dropped any Gold or Copper. It is known.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/z...9&p=1#comments

"A few named mobs pop up here, Gregendek Icepaw and Tpos Icepaw, Tpos drops the barbed ringmail, also a lot of spider fur stuff drops here, belt and collar, for sure. Some spells.. and a **** load of Silver. u will be destroying silver before long.. if u plan on hunting here for any length of time. "

Best reference I can find easily

That comment is from 2002.

So you're saying that they might have made a change to the types of coin that dropped in Velks between 2001 and 2002? It's a vintage post even if it's past our timeline. Maybe someone else knows I'm right and can find a better reference. I'm 100% certain this is correct though. I distinctly remember having hundreds of plat and many hundreds of silver after a night in Velks. The other 2 coins just didn't drop.

Now that you bring it up, this is how I remember it, as well.

Took a stab at finding a velks guide on vintage snapshots of monkly-business, but no dice. I figured monks would be paying attention to the coin.

Not exactly strong (or even medium-strength) evidence, but I did find:

(December 1st, 2001 07:03 PM)
So at the very least Velk's pit mobs should be dropping a lot of plat, but I found nothing about silver (or a lack of copper/gold).

Any more details about this?

This sounds legit, but I can't trust my memory. I can look thru my old Velks chat screenshots...

I do know there was a "Velks revamp" that occurred in 2001 (discussion here). Maybe a change happened then?

My Log Parser in process at home tracks money loot by zone, will give mcoy's logs a crawl.