Chapter 35

The Master of Coin was the king’s chief economic adviser.

His duties included recording the crown’s revenues and expenditures, receiving and compiling reports from subordinate officials, overseeing the collection of taxes and tariffs, arranging loans, managing the royal treasury, and supervising the crown’s three mints.

The Lonely Mountain holdings had developed well over these past years—but surely that did not warrant the realm’s Master of Coin traveling all the way from King’s Landing in person.