Currency

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Vendors + Currency - Everything you need to know

The currency system in Path of Exile revolves around a variety of different orbs and scrolls. Each currency item serves a specific function in the crafting and enhancement of a character's equipment, or allowing restructuring of the character's passive skill tree in the case of the Orb of Regret.

Currency items are used to pay for items in player trading.

Currency items

Currency items can be found as drops from monsters or chests, bought directly from different vendors in town, or received through the use of the vendor recipe system by trading specific configurations of items to any town vendor. Currency items play a large role in the player to player trading system, with rare orbs able to be traded for powerful equipment, or even other types of orbs that a player might need at the time for crafting.

Functional currency

These currencies have a direct purpose and can be consumed in most cases. This category includes items that tend to be common and well known, such as orbs or scrolls.

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Help Text

Shards and fragments

Shards and fragments are obtained by selling items to vendors or dropping from Harbingers. They can be combined to form certain currency items by stacking them.

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Help Text

Essences

Essences are items that upgrade a normal item to a rare item with predetermined modifiers.

Prophecies

Prophecies are given out from Navali in return for Silver Coins. They can be sealed into Prophecy items.

Vials

Vials drop in the Temple of Atzoatl and can upgrade specific unique items to make them more powerful.

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Help Text

Harbinger currency

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Perandus coins

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Delve currency

Fossils and Resonators can be found in the Azurite Mine or bought from Niko, Master of the Depths.

Fossils

Item	Drop Level	Effect(s)	Drop Areas	Additional Drop Restrictions
Aberrant FossilAberrant FossilStack Size: 20More Chaos modifiers No Lightning modifiersPlace in a Resonator to influence item crafting.	1	More Chaos modifiers No Lightning modifiers	N/A	Found in Fungal Caverns and Abyssal Depths biomes in the Azurite Mine.
Aetheric FossilAetheric FossilStack Size: 20More Caster modifiers Fewer Attack modifiersPlace in a Resonator to influence item crafting.	1	More Caster modifiers Fewer Attack modifiers	N/A	Found in Mines and Sulphur Vents biomes in the Azurite Mine.
Bloodstained FossilBloodstained FossilStack Size: 10Corrupted Has a Corrupted implicit modifierPlace in a Resonator to influence item crafting.	1	Corrupted Has a Corrupted implicit modifier	N/A	Drops from completing a Stonewood Hollow node in Petrified Forest biomes in the Azurite Mine.
Bound FossilBound FossilStack Size: 20More Minion, Aura or Curse modifiersPlace in a Resonator to influence item crafting.	1	More Minion, Aura or Curse modifiers	N/A	Found in Petrified Forest and Abyssal Depths biomes in the Azurite Mine.
Corroded FossilCorroded FossilStack Size: 20More Physical Ailment or Chaos Ailment modifiers No Elemental modifiersPlace in a Resonator to influence item crafting.	1	More Physical Ailment or Chaos Ailment modifiers No Elemental modifiers	N/A	Found in Fungal Caverns and Petrified Forest biomes in the Azurite Mine.
Deft FossilDeft FossilStack Size: 20More Critical modifiers No Attribute modifiersPlace in a Resonator to influence item crafting.	1	More Critical modifiers No Attribute modifiers	N/A	Found in Magma Fissure biomes in the Azurite Mine.
Dense FossilDense FossilStack Size: 20More Defence modifiers No Life ModifiersPlace in a Resonator to influence item crafting.	1	More Defence modifiers No Life Modifiers	N/A	Found in Fungal Caverns and Petrified Forest biomes in the Azurite Mine.

Resonators

This is a list of resonators.

Chaotic resonators

Chaotic resonators can drop in the core game.

Item	Drop Level	Effect(s)	Help Text

Alchemical resonators

In permanent leagues, alchemical resonators are drop disabled, but any existing ones can still be used.

In Ruthless mode, alchemical resonators can be obtained instead of chaotic resonators.

Item	Drop Level	Effect(s)	Help Text

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Oils

Oils can improve Blighted maps, amulets, rings and certain unique items.

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Help Text

Catalysts

Catalysts increase the quality of jewellery. They are exclusive to the Metamorph leagues.

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Help Text

Discontinued currency items

The following currency items no longer drop in the game (in any league).

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Help Text

Currency exchange resources

Exchange rates between different currency items is largely dependent on the item's scarcity and the demand for it by players willing to trade. Due to the continuously fluctuating nature of the Path of Exile economy, it is too impractical to keep an updated table of currency exchange rates here. Instead, please refer to these tools and resources:

currency.poe.trade
pathofexile.com/trade
poe.ninja (single-page overview and value-over-time tracking)

Vendor prices chart

A number of orbs are purchasable at vendors, and can thus be ranked like coins in normal currency. There are several progression tables below showing who sells what and what their equivalent value is in Alts (Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = Orb of Alteration").

Currency items that have shards are italicised.

Main Progression
Orb	Price	Value in Alts	Location
Orb of Alchemy	1× Orb of Regret	64	Act 3 (Clarissa)
Orb of Regret	2× Orb of Scouring	64	Act 2 (Yeena)
Orb of Scouring	4× Orb of Chance	32	Act 2 (Yeena)
Orb of Chance	1× Orb of Fusing	8	Act 3 (Clarissa)
Orb of Fusing	4× Jeweller's Orb	8	Act 2 (Yeena)
Chromatic Orb	3× Jeweller's Orb	6	Act 2 (Yeena)
Jeweller's Orb	2× Orb of Alteration	2	Act 2 (Yeena)
Orb of Alteration	4× Orb of Augmentation	1	Act 1 (Nessa)
Orb of Augmentation	4× Orb of Transmutation	1/4	Act 1 (Nessa)
Orb of Transmutation	7× Portal Scroll	1/16	Act 1 (Nessa)
Portal Scroll	3× Scroll of Wisdom	1/112	Act 1 (Nessa)
Scroll of Wisdom	baseline currency	1/336	N/A
Scraps Progression
Glassblower's Bauble	8× Blacksmith's Whetstone	N/A	Act 3 (Hargan)
Blacksmith's Whetstone	3× Armourer's Scrap	N/A	Act 2 (Greust)
Armourer's Scrap	1× Blacksmith's Whetstone	N/A	Act 1 (Tarkleigh)

Act 3's Clarissa and Act 4's Petarus and Vanja have all the Main Progression recipes.

Some Masters sell currency in bulk:

Master Progression
Orbs	Price	Master
20x Cartographer's Chisel	12x Chaos Orb	Zana

Vendors and player economy

Vendor prices are a base value for comparisons, player market value will vary. Since players can't downgrade one Orb of Fusing into eight Orbs of Alteration, they may be willing to sell them for less. High-level players will tend to accumulate rarer currencies, and when they begin rolling maps and running them, may run out of smaller denominations such as wisdom scrolls and orbs of alterations.

Don't forget that barter trading is not just what it is worth, it is also what you are willing to pay.