@DragonParadox last question for the night, and it's an economics one, but not the kind that involves numbers in anything but the abstract.
Gold/Silver intake versus taxes and tariffs being collected in Imperial Marks is steadily (albeit quite slowly) shrinking as more and more of it enters circulation each month and loans are given out by the Iron Bank, but we will still be collecting regular bullion for quite a while.
But given this means we are literally swallowing up boatloads of gold every month and most of it is sitting in our treasury unless we spend it, what kind of effect is that having on Westeros??? The Lannisters quite literally can't spend most of the gold they have lest the crash the economy, so they're not exactly
short on the regular kind, but the minted variety, the ones stamped with the faces of dead Targaryen kings where they haven't yet been reminted or Robert's face, if I'm math-ing correctly, even in the estimation that the majority of our gold is mostly from taxes as people try to quickly get rid of it while reorganizing their income so that they are collecting a steady stream of our own minted currency, have got to be flowing into our treasury alarmingly fast.
And they don't exit the treasury as anything other than highly pure ingots stamped with the Three-Headed Dragon, and not often on the same plane unless it's in places like Trader Town where they'll happily take our gold without us having to make up the difference with more of it.
Edit: To add to the above, a Baelish or Kevan interlude about this would be great. Kevan especially great.
Edit 2: Meant Imperial Marks... that's an old slip.