Random Coinage Generator

I am currently reading Flaubert's Salammbo, a chief candidate for what I will in future refer to as the Appendix N of Appendix N - that primordial stew of fin de siecle proto-pulp from which the Appendix N books sprang.

There will be much more to say about this bizarre and wonderful book in a future post or two, but for now, here's a passage from it:

Then when they had come to the far end of the corridor Abdalonim took one of the keys hanging at his belt and opened up a large square chamber, divided in the middle by cedar wood columns. Coins of gold, silver, and bronze, laid out on tables or put away in recesses, piled along all four walls up to the roofbeams. Huge trunks of hippopotamus hide carried, at their corners, whole row of smaller sacks; heaps of bullion lay in mounds on the floor; and here and there a pile had grown too high and had collapsed, to look like a ruined column. Large Carthaginian pieces, representing Tanit with a horse under a palm-tree, mingled with those from the colonies, marked with a bull, a star, a globe, or a crescent. Then could be seen laid out, in unequal sums, coins of all values, sizes, and periods - from old Assyrian coins, thin as a finger nail, to old ones from Latium, thicker than a hand, with buttons from Aegina, tablets from Bactria, short rods from ancient Sparta; many were covered in rust, or dirt, green from water or black from fire, having been picked up in nets or in the ruins of some besieged town.

The idea of all of these different coins bearing the marks of war and disaster is so evocative I just had to think up a random table for generating more interesting treasure:

Dice	Shape	Thickness	Motif	Condition
1	Circle	Fingernail (weigh 0.1cn, 10% of normal value)	Blank	As though newly minted
2		Wafer (weigh 0.2cn, 20% of normal value)	Symbol (key, crossed swords, skull, etc.)	Well-used but otherwise clean
3		Regular (weigh 1cn, normal value)	Snake
4			Dragon
5			Fish
6	Oval		Tree	Scorched (-2% value)
7	Triangle		Flower
8	Hexagon		Scorpion	Rusted (-5% value)
9	Square	Double regular (weigh 2cn, twice normal value	Head of local ruler of recent vintage
10	Rod	One finger (weigh 5cn, five times normal value)	Head of local ruler of ancient vintage	Bloodstained
11	Pentagon/ Octagon/ Decagon	Two fingers (weigh 10cn, 10 times normal value)	Head of distant ruler of recent vintage	Defaced
12	Irregular	Irregular (average weight of 1cn, average value)	Head of distant ruler of ancient vintage	Melted (divide total amount of hoard by 3d6; this is how many individual chunks of metal there are - each is worth its weight in the respective metal)