Crowns/Chips

Chips and Crowns are the currency used in SaGa Frontier 2.

Crowns
Crowns are the SaGa Frontier 2 equivalent of money, gold, coins, currency. Crowns can be spent in shops to buy or repair weapons and items. They can be acquired through the standard variety of means, inclduing;
 * Selling items
 * Dropped after battle
 * Found in treasure chests
 * Converting Chips to Crowns

Unfortunately, Crowns do not cross over to other characters. If you accumulate a large amount with someone like Wil Knights and then decide to play a scenario as Gustave XIII you will start his scenario with 0 Crowns, and not the previous stockpile. This can be avoided by converting Crowns into Chips (see below).

Chips
Chips are a secondary currency in SaGa Frontier 2. Chips are the building blocks, or raw materials, of all weapons, armour, accessories and items. Whenever you reduce an items durability to zero through battle it will break into a number of Chips (a fixed amount according to the item). Like Crowns, Chips can be used to purchase new items or Custom Tools. Chips can be acquired by the following means;
 * Reducing item durability to zero in battle
 * Turning items into Chips via a specialist shop
 * Dropped after battle
 * Found in treasure chests
 * Converting Crowns to Chips

Chips, unlike Crowns, carry over throughout the game, regardless of who you play as. There is a hidden Chips Circulation Counter in the game that calculates and keeps track of how many Chips you have acquired, used and have. This is used to determine what Custom Tools you can create as well as giving you a Rank upon beating the game.

The Chips Rank is broken down into 8 different grades:
 * S: 16,384 +
 * A: 8192 - 16,383
 * B: 4096 - 8191
 * C: 2048 - 4095
 * D: 1024 - 2047
 * E: 512 - 1023
 * F: 256 - 511
 * G: 0 - 255

Converting Crowns and Chips
At certain shops (mainly in Vogelang and Gruegel) you can convert Crowns to Chips (or vice versa), which enables you to buy new items, or transfer your Crowns to another character. As Crowns do not cross over to other characters you can convert them into Chips as to not lose your hard earned currency.