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To quote Watto "Republic credits are no good out here, I need something more real". Like what exactly? Did the outer rim territories use some sort of precious metals as a currency or were you just expected to barter and trade whatever you had on you? 63.230.51.239 03:43, April 16, 2012 (UTC)

• Have you ever tried to purchase something in the mid-to-Southern USA using Canadian dollars? Or Euros? Different currencies exist in Star Wars, just as they do on Earth. Republic dataries are not valid currency on Tatooine. Watto can't accept them, because he wouldn't be able to spend them anywhere. Presumably the Hutt clans have their own unit of currency, which Watto would've wanted instead. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith ^{-Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!-} 12:40, April 16, 2012 (UTC)
  • In this case: Wupiupi nayayen★talk 13:17, April 16, 2012 (UTC)

Ah yes, 7 wuipiupi, I remember now. Thank you. I was just confused by his wording. If you tried to spend US dollars in Iran for example, they might not except it but I wouldn't think they would refer to their currency as "More real".65.110.254.120 14:30, October 1, 2012 (UTC)

• Alternatively, Watto may have expected peggats (one peggat is sixty-four wupiupi), which are actually made of gold. This would qualifiy as "more real", perhaps. --LelalMekha (talk) 14:59, October 1, 2012 (UTC)
  • I think he's just being facetious. He's from a part of the Galaxy where Republic credits might not be worth the paper they're printed on (sidebar: a Republic credit looks like what?). Maybe liken it to a hypothetical American who is given a Canadian dollar and makes a joke about being given play money. "Real money doesn't have a caribou on it!" he might say. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith ^{-Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!-} 15:19, October 1, 2012 (UTC)
    • Back in the day, there used to be signs on US vending machines, stating that you can't use Canadian coins in them. I've tried using Canadian coins in vending machines, and the coin would simply be dropped on through, as if I had plunked in a washer or a button. Vending machines nowadays have a sensor in them that reads the size of the coin as it passes through. If it is too small or too big to be of a certain value, the coin is dropped through to the coin return tray. However, there are some foreign coins that evidently can fool the machine, as I've ended up with coins from Bermuda and Vietnam, when receiving change for a dollar. Long story short (too late), different territories, different currencies. On Tatooine, which is practically owned by the Hutts, Republic credits simply have no value. Be it the exchange rate (dataries compared to wupiupi, for example) is too small for the currency to be worth converting, or there is no place to exchange the currency, or whatever the reason may be. Either way, Watto simply could not accept that form of currency. Trak Nar ^{Ramble on} 04:19, October 2, 2012 (UTC)
• It's quite simple. Tatooine was controlled by the Hutts, not the Republic. Though the Hutts may have dealt with the Republic using Republic credits, the inhabitants of Tatooine simply traded within the Hutt economy, using the Hutt currency. There is no better way to control the people within an isolationist state, than to dictate what currency they use. Beep beep boop boop (talk) 12:39, October 3, 2012 (UTC)

I also have a problem with this scene. What I don't understand is how Star wars had no currency exchange stations. In the real world if you wanted to buy something on Tattoine you would go swap some credits for Hutt currency and bought the starship parts without trouble.--92.7.151.92 12:13, November 11, 2012 (UTC)

• Star Wars might have such stations. Tatooine needn't. Or at least Mos Espa needn't. Besides, if Republic credits have little value on Tatooine, what Tatooinian in their right mind would willingly take on a bunch of useless money in exchange for the good stuff? Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith ^{-Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!-} 17:45, November 13, 2012 (UTC)
• In a galaxy full of so many people an interplanetary business could earn a LOT of money from it.--92.7.138.35 22:26, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
  • At least one has. NaruHina ^Talk 21:30, November 16, 2012 (UTC)