Nine Copper Cash strung on a red cord. Nine strings make a Silver Tael at a crafting table, and a tael breaks back into nine strings.

The Alliance Merchant sells 4 bread for one string.

The Murim's townsfolk trade in strings instead of emeralds, one string for each emerald, both ways: the villagers of the Alliance Outpost, the Lotus Moon Garden and the Jade River Stilt Village, and the travellers on the roads.