Our Town is Under Attack!

[Soundwave]

Worth every copper

[Noliar]

There's a lot you can do with 240 tonnes of copper.

[Halinn]

There's a lot you can do with 240 tonnes of copper.

Like fabricate it into a giant sheet, slightly over 1 inch thick, covering your entire army of evildoers from Detect Evil.

[Soundwave]

Or fabricate a gigantic, hollow, D20 and leave it outside a city you want to invade as a gift while your evil army hides inside.

[caelic]

There's a lot you can do with 240 tonnes of copper.

Particularly if you have the first level "Merge Coin Pile" spell from Hackmaster--the one that allows you to convert currency from one type to another of equal value. 

Tossing pouches of platinum (old AD&D currency rules) and then converting them to copper was...explosive.

[linklord231]

There's a lot you can do with 240 tonnes of copper.

Particularly if you have the first level "Merge Coin Pile" spell from Hackmaster--the one that allows you to convert currency from one type to another of equal value. 

Tossing pouches of platinum (old AD&D currency rules) and then converting them to copper was...explosive.

There you go.  "Throw money at it" is a perfectly valid solution to some problems.