How you make your coin

[spets21]

oh btw forgot to mention i also use

the masque of clavicus vile and amulet of zenithar for 30% better price when bartering it helps a lot for starters after helgen just go straight to falkreath and talk to lod about a dog and he will start the chain quest called a daedra's best friend while following the road you'l encounter a couple of surprise on the way get their loot and so on and so forth

hope it helps :D

[Michlo]

Improve all my loot before selling.

 

I'm at 650k+ now so coin has become meaningless.

 

 

 

Edit - Oh and, of course, get your speechcraft up and use items which increase speech and / or bartering. :)

[Matth85]

Pickpocking: Almost everybody seem to carry rings and amulets worth a fortune.

Alchemy: There are certain recipes ( Giant Toe + Creep Cluster + Wheat I believe) that yields 600-5k gold. Depending on alchemy perk, level and enchants.

Enchanting: Enchanting all gear I loot with decent enchants. Yield more gold than I can carry.

Looting: Well, I loot everything.

Dragons: I do not use dragon armor. So I sell the bones and scales. Quite a nice bit of gold.

 

 

Personally, I pick up certain flowers before I hit Riverwood for the first time. I leave it with 1.2k-1.5k gold. At Whiterun I might get lucky in the alchemy shop, her having a Giant Toe, and I can hit 3k-5k before I leave. When I return, I can hit about 8k-10kish with enchanting all the gear I've picked up, disenchanting what I can, and making potions out of all the plants I got. From there on I will get steady ammount of money, untill I spend them. It is not hard to hit 20k+ gold very early, very easy, by alchemy alone ;) Best crafting skill there is!

 

Cheers,

Matth

[pantherfern]

In the earlier stages I just kept an eye on gold/weight ratios and tried to only loot stuff that was worth x amount. As I went up, that amount went up. So like, early on, I think leather helmets are 25g/1 lb, bracers are 15g/ 1 lb, boots are 10g/2 lb, chest are 35g/ 7 lb. Numbers may be off but as an example it works. Just loot helmets and maybe bracers to keep your gold/weight ratio up. Jewelery is nearly always a good call, enchanted stuff is even better. Soul gems are good.

 

I have a couple of habits (good or bad, not sure) which are harvesting every plant within reach and grabbing every potion I see. Potions can really build up weight if you don't pay attention but they are easy, portable, good ratio sales fodder (assuming I actually remember to sell them.)

 

Scrolls are awesome usually. Most go for 1-500g easily and weigh almost nothing. Most of my trips to town to "sell stuff" I end up starting with these and wipe all vendors in town out of cash only to find I'm still only 10lb under encumbrance limit ><

 

I do a lot of thieving as well I guess purely out of habit. If I'm in a city/inn/house/etc, whatever room I am in will be immediately cleared of anything of value or anything I think might look cool in my place. Any plant, gem, soul gem, coinpurse, jewelery, loose change is hoovered into my pack

 

I have this terrible habit also of seeing OMG ebony sword that's 800g!!! and having to remind myself that the gold diamond necklace is worth more and weighs .5 lb instead of 8lb. From a purely financial end, weapons and armor are terrible returns compared to all the < 1lb stuff and really should only be grabbed if a) you will use it or b)you want to DE it for the effect. Even the super-neato-cool weapon at the end of a dungeon or whatever is worth, what, 3k? Maybe? Even at a modest 7lb that's a fraction of what 7lb worth of random-useless jewelery, scrolls, or elixirs would fetch.

 

Of course now I have done all the guilds'/main quests, am Thane of everywhere, and own all available homes fully upgraded so I need money for . . .nothing I guess. I buy whatever ebony/glass arrows anybody has for sale.

 

My only problem really is actually selling the stuff. My house(s) are SO FULL of stuff I could probably be a Skyrim Millionaire except that I can only sell so much at a time before the town is broke. So when I zone into a town I collect my few grand from the merchants but then I'm still left with tons of stuff so I just dump it in a house and continue on. Hundreds of ores hides and leathers, literally probably thousands of ingredients in my apothecary satchel. Last I remember I was up to 73 amethyst (probably half as many of each other gem type) but I have no real use for them and hands are so tied by merchants ability to buy that I just horde everything "just in case."

 

I'd be willing to bet that some plan like "loot nothing over 1lb or under 20g" would work out to be the simplest and most profitable overall.

[InuyashaFE]

Dragon bones and Dragon scales do make quite a bit of coin as mentioned, the only problem is finding a merchant that can buy it all.

[justwannaddl]

I just focus on leveling until loot drops enough gold. Selling loot is too much of a hassle in Skyrim because of the gold limits.

[BlackTwist]

I ask Mjnoil how the shops' doin' and she gives me all of the gold i need!

[Vangarrett99]

I'm assuming you mean during the "early" phase where you still need coin. Picking up a banish weapon and disenchanting that is my first step to making my early fortune. I use most of this to buy training for the skills that are a complete pain to level up.

 

That work for me too. Simply craft an iron dagger, enchant it with Banish and sell it. The enchanted dagger can easily fetch up to 1k each. And I am only using Petty Soul Gems. Now I have 100,000,000 gold just by doing it. I get my soul gems from all the monsties I kill. Goats, Wolves, even rabbits yield souls.

 

Oh yeah... I started with Alchemy too (too slow), then I took an arrow to the knee.

[spets21]

having a wife/husband that sells general goods help too :D early in game , it's also wise to buy every soul gem(common/pretty/grand/greater) that a merchant sells before you sell your stuff to that same merchant that way the money you spend will be guaranteed "returned"

[BGatot]

Even though my character is a thief, in truth she made most of her money by improving dungeon-looted weapons and armor, then enchant them before selling them at good price. It's quite lucrative! Those draugrs provide both the base weapons and the souls to enchant them with. Edited December 18, 2011 by BGatot