Meant as a handbook of the relative values of trade items, the work also put forth a number of theories about the nature of trading and offered suggestions on how to deal with difficult merchants who wished not to haggle. After having paged once through the work, he went back and made note of some of the maximum values he could expect to make off certain goods in their prime condition:

• Broadsword 4s2r
• Light Crossbow 17s5r
• Redweed Brew 61s2r
• Ruby 262s5r
• Moredhel Lamprey 17s
• Picklocks 12s2r
• Standard Armor 15s7r
• Emerald 350s
• Moredhel Brooch 87s5r
• Guilder's Passkey 8s5r
• Galon Griefmaker 122s5r
• Diamond 1050s

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