Currency items can be found as drops from monsters or chests, bought directly from different vendors in town, or received through the use of the vendor recipe system by trading specific configurations of items to any town vendor. Currency items play a large role in the player to player trading system, with rare orbs able to be traded for powerful equipment, or even other types of orbs that a player might need at the time for crafting.

The list of PoE Currency

Currency Items	Drop Level	Currency Guide
Albino Rhoa Feather	1	No known uses
Apprentice Cartographer’s Seal	1	Uncompletes a white map (tier 1 to 5) on the Atlas of Worlds.
Apprentice Cartographer’s Sextant	68	Adds an atlas modifier to a white map (tier 1 to 5) on the Atlas of Worlds.
Armourer’s Scrap	1	Improve the quality of a piece of armour
Bestiary Orb	15	Store a captured beast
Blacksmith’s Whetstone	1	Improve the quality of a weapon
Blessed Orb	35	Re-roll values of the implicit modifiers on a piece of equipment
Blessing of Chayula	1	Upgrade certain Breach unique items
Blessing of Esh	1	Upgrade certain Breach unique items
Blessing of Tul	1	Upgrade certain Breach unique items
Blessing of Uul-Netol	1	Upgrade certain Breach unique items
Blessing of Xoph	1	Upgrade certain Breach unique items
Cartographer’s Chisel	52	Improve the quality of a map
Chaos Orb	12	Re-roll the random modifiers on a piece of rare equipment
Chromatic Orb	2	Re-roll the colour of sockets on a weapon or piece of armour
Divine Orb	35	Re-roll the values of all random explicit modifiers on a piece of equipment
Exalted Orb	35	Enhance a piece of rare equipment with a new random affix
Gemcutter’s Prism	12	Improve the quality of a gem
Glassblower’s Bauble	2	Improve the quality of a flask
Jeweller’s Orb	8	Re-roll the number of sockets on a weapon or piece of armour
Journeyman Cartographer’s Seal	1	Uncompletes a white or yellow map (tier 1 to 10) on the Atlas of Worlds
Journeyman Cartographer’s Sextant	74	Adds an atlas modifier to a white or yellow map (tier 1 to 10) on the Atlas of Worlds
Master Cartographer’s Seal	1	Uncompletes any map on the Atlas of Worlds
Master Cartographer’s Sextant	79	Adds an atlas modifier to a any map on the Atlas of Worlds
Mirror of Kalandra	35	Create a mirrored duplicate of any piece of non-unique equipment, non-corrupted item, or map that is not itself a duplicate
Orb of Alchemy	2	Upgrade a piece of normal equipment to rare
Orb of Alteration	2	Re-roll the random modifiers on a piece of magic equipment
Orb of Annulment	35	Remove a random modifier from a magic or rare item
Orb of Augmentation	1	Enhance a piece of magic equipment with an additional random affix
Orb of Chance	2	Upgrade a piece of normal equipment to a random rarity
Orb of Fusing	8	Re-roll the links between sockets on a weapon or piece of armour
Orb of Regret	2	Gain one passive skill refund point
Orb of Scouring	12	Remove all random modifiers from a magic or rare piece of equipment
Orb of Transmutation	1	Upgrade a piece of normal equipment to magic
Portal Scroll	2	Instantly creates a portal when used
Regal Orb	12	Upgrade a piece of magic equipment to rare
Scroll of Wisdom	1	Identify magic, rare, or unique items and strongboxes
Silver Coin	1	Exchanged for prophecies with Navali
Stacked Deck	50	Gain one random divination card
Unshaping Orb	1	Downgrades a map on the Atlas of Worlds
Vaal Orb	12	Corrupt an item, causing unpredictable and possibly powerful results

PoE Currency Trade Calculator

The following calculator list is the PoE currency rates in the trade marketplace. Chaos Orb is the standard currency. Mirror of Kalandra is the most expensive currency item in Path of Exile.

PoE Currency	Pay	Get Chaos Orb
Mirror of Kalandra	1	33.5k
Exalted Orb	1	140.1
Orb of Annulment	1	31.5
Divine Orb	1	28
Harbinger’s Orb	1	16
Ancient Orb	1	14
Exalted Shard	1	6
Master Cartographer’s Sextant	1	3.3
Journeyman Cartographer’s Sextant	1	1.8
Splinter of Chayula	1	1.2
Gemcutter’s Prism	1	1.3
Apprentice Cartographer’s Sextant	1	1
Engineer’s Orb	1.5	1
Orb of Regret	1.2	1
Vaal Orb	1.2	1
Orb of Horizons	1.8	1
Orb of Fusing	2	1
Orb of Scouring	2.3	1
Regal Orb	3.2	1
Orb of Alchemy	3.4	1
Cartographer’s Chisel	3.5	1
Orb of Alteration	4.2	1
Chromatic Orb	5.2	1
Silver Coin	6	1
Glassblower’s Bauble	7.8	1
Jeweller’s Orb	8.9	1
Orb of Chance	9.8	1
Orb of Augmentation	21.9	1
Blessed Orb	20	1
Blacksmith’s Whetstone	43.6	1
Armourer’s Scrap	43.6	1
Portal Scroll	49.5	1
Orb of Transmutation	39.1	1
Perandus Coin	60.4	1
Scroll of Wisdom	153.9	1

How to Farm Currency in Path of Exile?

(1) PoE Currency Recipes

The vendor recipe system allows the player to sell items to any town vendor in exchange for a multitude of currency items and equipment. For a beginner, you can do Chaos Orb recipe. Latter, Exalted Shard recipe is more profitable.

Chaos recipe is nice and easy while running atziri, lab or maps. Best way to make currency as a new player is trading in sets of unidentified rares (item level 60 or higher iirc) for 2 Chaos Orbs. Then after a night of mapping/delving/etcing head over to PoE Trade and trade in all the stuff you don’t need in for Chaos Orbs. It all adds up pretty fast and you’ll find yourself with plenty of currency before you know it.

(2) Killing Boss

Boss killing is also much more profitable early on, both in terms of the items and bosskilling payments, but drops dramatically as the league goes on. Chaos/hour will depend on what you kill, and early on very dependent on your map drops, but it’s quite high.

(3) Build your character the best

You can go to PoE Ninja and find the best character build examples. Investing into your gear, you will be clearing maps fast enough that it is more chance to farm more valuable currency items.

(4) Uber lab

Uber lab is the easiest way to learn and farm currency(I’m not talking about best way to earn currency). It’s simple because you don’t need to learn how to roll maps, setting up atlas/sextants and learn what to pick up. Just look for a cheap build that can do uber lab. Do it until you get used to moving fast in any layout, check any enchants on poe if you don’t know the price.

(5) Item/currency flipping

Item/currency flipping are the most chaos/hour, but it isn’t for everyone. Early on in the league if you get your masters to level 8 very fast, you can also make a huge amount from selling your services. I only flipped currency for about a week, and was getting a little over 400-500 chaos/hour depending on times. It could have been more; I was very new to it all and wasn’t in every market.

(6) Upgrade Skill Gems

Leveling skill gems to 20 for sale, vaults, caer blaidd with atlas for vaults, mao kuns, oba’s, uber lab, farming guardians, elder. Each of those is at least 150c/h profit with proper build and/or investment. You can find the related expensive skill gems from PoE Ninja.

(7) Best for yourself

In general, I would recommend just finding something profitable you enjoy and playing it a lot. For example, farm the highest tier of map your build can do comfortably without dying too much.

(8) Gear up

Honestly, the easiest way to make currency in standard is just gear up with ~60%MF and run a high density map with just alc since you don’t have enough currency for flipping. If you are starting out with low currency, do not add any investments to your map because you can’t afford the loss of profits due to RNG. Just alc and go nets you the best currency in return given that you don’t have enough resources to fully chisel, sextant, fragments, and vaal 100 maps. I farmed up a headhunter within a week with just 3-4 hours per day doing it this way.

More details on my method: -Have a dump tab to deposit my loots -Pick up all the uniques (These uniques will help you sustain alcs if you vendor them) -Look for uniques that sell for a decent amount with high rolls and sell them. -Alc maps in sets of 50-100 and reroll maps with mods you don’t like. -Do lower tier maps to infinitely sustaining them (look up a video on how to do that)

(9) Choosing which maps to run

When picking a map tier to run to run, or when rolling a map, you might be tempted to go for the highest tier possible, or to roll the best pack size and quantity mods possible. Before you do this, please consider whether or not you’ll be able to clear it efficiently with your current character. It’s almost always better to pick a map where you can safely destroy most packs with a single ability.

Linear map layouts, and other types of layouts that are easy to clear without backtracking are almost always going to feel better than convoluted maze maps.

(10) Looting only high value items

A strict item filter is vital to avoid wasting your time. Every second you spend clicking a wisdom scroll, transmutation orb, blacksmith whetstone etc has an opportunity cost. Additionally, a filter that shows too much will clog your screen and obstruct your view of monsters, which could put you in potentially dangerous situations.

Another thing to consider is the inventory size of items. I am to be able to complete a map using only 1, or on rare occasions 2 portals. Having to leave your map takes time, and disrupts your run.

(11) Trade items from currency items

My own personal trade ruleset is this:
1. Minimum transaction profit: 5c. I don’t even list items that are worth less than this, unless I can sell them in bulk, like certain maps or essences.
2. Be polite, don’t waste people’s time, but don’t let anyone else waste your time either. If I’m trying to buy an item I usually wait about 10 seconds to give them time to respond, before whispering the next person on the list.
3. If someone is trying to offer you camels and goats (random rare items plus mixed currency that equates to far less than your listed price) for a high value item, just say “No thanks” and keep mapping. Negotiating with these people is usually a huge waste of time.
4. If you want an item to sell quickly, it’s OKAY to sell it for a lower price than the market value, so long as you are aware of it, and are making an informed decision. Bear in mind that you might get lowballed by a large amount if you list an item without a price, though. It’s also okay to list an item for more than the current market value if you’re not in a hurry to sell it. Prices will change depending on the time of day, how far into the league you are, and on the shifting meta.