Meanwhile, Adora Belle Dearheart has been working to uncover several golems from the ruins of the ancient city of Um. Cosmo Lavish goes a step further and tries to replace Vetinari by taking on his identity, but fails. This brings him into conflict with both Bent and the wealthy Lavish family who try to dispose of him without success. He tries to reform the currency by introducing Paper Money.

Because the official currency is weak, many people have taken to using Post Office stamps as coins instead. The Royal Mint is operating at a loss because the metal required to produce the coins costs more than their actual value. Moist is met with several challenges in office. She has also specified in her will that Moist should ensure Mr Fusspot carries out his duties correctly and that the Assassins' Guild would enforce this contract, effectively forcing Moist to run the bank. A short while afterwards, Lavish dies and the majority of shares in the bank are inherited by her dog Mr Fusspot, making him the chairman. Lavish deduces that Moist is a crook and thus takes a liking to him, but after leaving Moist decides to refuse the job offer. Moist visits both places, where he meets Mavolio Bent, the Chief Cashier and the bank's chairman Topsy Lavish.

Lord Vetinari offers him the job of running the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork and the Ankh-Morpork Mint. Moist von Lipwig is content but slightly bored with his successful leadership of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office. and every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins' Guild might get him first. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life.

Making Money by Terry Pratchett