Chocolate Coins

Chocolate coins are the currency used on Piñata Island. They come in four varieties, each denoting a different value. Chocolate coins are most commonly used to purchase things from the shops, and can be obtained by selling items to Costolot’s Store, completing factory challenges, or can even be dug up from the ground.

Types of Chocolate Coins

Image	Coin	Value	Journal Entry
	Bronze	10	Chocolate coins are very simple to understand. The larger the coin, the more valuable it is (because there is more chocolate inside). To add insult to injury, the smallest coins have a dull bronze colored casing so you can be clear they aren't worth very much.
	Silver	50	When you've collected too many bronze coins, the linings of your pockets start to wear out, so the silver coin was invented. You could replace five bronze coins with one of these, and for a time people were happy.
	Gold	100	When you think about a valuable metal, gold is the one that springs to mind. So, by public demand, the larger more valuable gold coin was created. It was worth twice as much as the silver coin and ten times as valuable as the bronze coin. Somehow having three types of coins was enough to keep everyone happy with chocolate currency.
	Big Gold	500	As things get more expensive people had to carry buckets of chocolate coins down to the shop just to buy bread. The solution was the big gold coin. It's worth as much as fifty bronze coins and is so heavy that people may need hand carts instead of purses to carry their cash around!

Tips

There are many ways to amass chocolate coins while playing the game. If you are trying to obtain all the piñata awards, you will likely amass coins quickly as you sell off piñatas after obtaining their Master Romance award. Selling fruits, veggies, unneeded plants, goodies from the mine, and piñata produce are also all ways to amass cash.

While you may passively obtain money by just playing the game, you’re still likely to be strapped for cash early on. Luckily, there are some notable money-making strategies that you can utilize to quickly gain the money you need to run your garden.

• In the original Viva Piñata, you can plant chili plants very close together. This allows you to fully fertilize many plants at once. A fully fertilized chili is worth 500 chocolate coins, so this is a fantastic money-making strategy early in the game. This was patched in Trouble in Paradise, with chilis now needing more space to grow. Chilis are still a good method to earn money in this game, but you will need to spend a little more on fertilizer.
• Probably the best piñatas to earn money with are Tafflies. Purchasing the firebrand from Costolot’s store will allow you to evolve Tafflies into Reddhotts. With Reddhotts being 7 times more valuable than Tafflies, and Tafflies being able to basically passively join your garden once you have some basic infrastructure, makes for an extremely powerful and quick money-making strategy. This method works in all games.

Trivia

• Chocolate coins are all stamped with the face of Jeffe, the former head of Piñata Central. Each coin features a different expression, corresponding with the value.