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There are many transliterations of the currency: Berry, Beli, Berri. Which one
is the official one?

The Navy just give large bounties for pirates, Buggy has a 15 million bounty
and Luffy has a 30 million. Would Luffy's bounty be an equivalent to 30
million Yen?

What would be the real world value of the currency used in One Piece?


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How much is One Piece's currency worth?


In the original, it's called _Beli_ in English. However, if the Japanese word
is translated correctly, it's _Beri_ \- it's a feature of the Japanese
language (look at [SingerOfTheFalls
answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/740/51)). However, it differs in
different languages: for example in Germany, it's Berry.

To compare the prices:

  * One cabbage loaf: 150 Beli
  * A Bon Chari: 500 Beli for renting, 10,000 Beli for buying
  * A Doskoi Panda brand shirt: 10,000 Beli
  * Nami's Jacket: 28,800 Beli

* * *

Regarding Luffy's bounty would be an equivalent to 30 million Yen,

> 30 million Beli on Luffy's head is a little bit old; his current bounty is
> 400 million Beli.

Quote:

> Fourth Bounty: Defeating yet another Shichibukai (Gekko Moriah), attacking a
> World Noble, causing an unprecedented breakout from Impel Down,
> participating in the Whitebeard War, and by intruding Marine Headquarters a
> second time and ringing the Ox Bell 16 times (which was taken as a
> declaration of war), Luffy's bounty has gone up 100,000,000 more to make a
> total of ![Beli symbol](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mvFA.gif) 400,000,000
> making it the third highest active bounty known. The public revelation of
> his relation to Monkey D. Dragon may also have influenced it.


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In One Piece, the currency is called **ベリ**.

  * **ベ** Is kana for "be", no mistake can be made here.
  * **リ** Is kana for "ri".

However, in Japanese, there is no "real" 'l' or 'r' sounds, so it would sound
like something between 'r' in 'rock' and 'l' in 'lock'. Native speakers can
pronounce it in different ways, with 'l', with 'r' or with a mix of both, it
still stays the same kana.

It's pretty much the same as with "Horo"/"Holo". So the correct romanization
would be either " **Beri** " or " **Beli** ". "Berry" probably appeared
because "beri" sounds similar to "berry", and "berry" is an actual English
world, or maybe there was another reason.

* * *

As for the prices, [looper's
answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/737/222) already mentions some of
them .

> To compare the prices:
>
>   * One cabbage loaf: 150 Beli
>   * A Bon Chari: 500 Beli for renting, 10,000 Beli for buying
>   * A Doskoi Panda brand shirt: 10,000 Beli
>   * Namis Jacket: 28,800 Beli
>


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People seem to read past your second question, but yes Luffy's bounty was an
equivalent to 30 million **Yen**. As said in the trivia section of the [wiki
page on Beli](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Beli), both the appearance and
denomination of the beri closely resembles the Japanese Yen...

> In appearance and denomination, the belly closely resembles the Japanese Yen
> (日本円 Nihon En). The characters Yukichi Skull, Ichiro Kumaguchi, and Hideo
> Usaguchi portrayed on the belly banknotes are a pun on Hideyo Noguchi,
> Ichiyō Higuchi and Fukuzawa Yukichi portrayed on the corresponding yen
> banknotes. "Kuma" and "usa" mean bear and rabbit.

...and so does its value.

Some Images for comparison:

![Beli](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tklF3.png)

_One Piece Beli bills and coins_

![Yen bills](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Guhb.jpg) ![Yen
coins](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tdsa9.jpg)

_Real Japanese Yen bills and coins_

For reference I put a few prices below gotten from the wiki page. Comparing
them to contemporary [slave
prices](http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/japan/4-profiles.htm) or [terrorist
bounties](http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/the-rewards-for-
justice-program-offers-bounties-to-try-and-stop-terrorism/story-
fnpjxnlk-1227364950539), it seems that we put more value on human life than in
the One Piece universe and have somewhat higher prices going on, but when
comparing everyday objects like a cabbage loaf, jacket or brand shirt, it
seems that the prices pretty much resemble current Japan prices. **Therefore
it is safe to say that Oda based the One Piece currency on the currency of his
home country Japan.** [A reference of Oda confirming this would be nice, but I
could not seem to find any]

>   * One cabbage loaf: ![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mvFAm.gif)150
>   * Doskoi Panda brand shirt:
> ![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mvFAm.gif)10,000
>   * Nami's jacket: ![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mvFAm.gif)28,800
>   * Human slaves: ![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mvFAm.gif)500,000+
>   * Portgas D. Ace's now inactive
> ![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mvFAm.gif)550,000,000 bounty
>


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The author have clarified it in S.B.S corner (a Q&A corner, may not be
available for non-Japanese, or non-Korean readers), that one "BELI" worth 1
yen.

Now it's about 80 cents for 100 yen, but it is more appropriate to see it as 1
dollar for 100 yen, so 30M Beli would equal to 300K USD.


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I find in Skypia ark when the crew don't pay for entrance, Guards say they
need to pay 10 billions xtals for each one and all will be 70 billions and
rate of xtals per belly is 10000 xtals for 1 belly, that means they need to
pay 7 millons belley for all crew. Sanji say that for this price he can buy 1
ton of rice, at the moment rate for 1 ton of rice is around 408 USD on
19/03/2019 from that we can calculate that 1$ ~ 17156 Belly. At the last in
this ark Luffys reward is 100 millions belly in USD will be ~582$ dead or
alive.


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