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Game CurrencyEdit
The game contains two different currency items: Coins (number 7 in picture above) and Crystals (number 8 in picture above).

You can earn coins by successfully investigating pictures and puzzles. Each picture or puzzle awards a certain number of coins for each play. This number increases as the level of the picture or puzzle increases. You can also increase the amount of coins you win by using Talismans, hiring Friends with the Merchant Profession before playing that picture/puzzle or the first time you play a picture after it has been charged by a friend with the Merchant Profession while visiting you. You can also earn coins by combining collections, and from collecting your desktop awards rewards after they have been charged by visiting friends.

Coins are needed to open new pictures and puzzles once you have unlocked them and collected all the picture/puzzle pieces needed to open them. Some pictures need as many as 100,000 coins to open. When you press open on a new picture for which you have collected all pieces, you are brought to a mini game in the form of a jigsaw puzzle. If you do not complete the jigsaw in the allotted time, you will not unlock the picture and will need to pay the coins again to try and open the picture again. If you do not unlock the picture your coins are not depleted. If you are just starting out in the game, it is recommended to hold onto your coins until you have unlocked all the pictures and puzzles. Even when you have all pictures and puzzles unlocked, you will need to keep a stockpile of coins to ensure you can open any new pictures/puzzles added by game updates.

Coins can also be used to buy certain items such as some tools in the Shop. You can buy additional coins from the bank by pressing the green + sign next to your current coin (or crystal) total at any time to make an in-app purchase.

You earn 1 crystal for each new level you reach in the game. You can also earn some crystals for completing certain quests at the beginning of the game (such as following G5 on Twitter). You can also buy additional crystals from the bank by pressing the green + sign next to your current crystal (or coin) total at any time to make an in-app purchase.

Crystals are used to unlock pictures/puzzles when you haven't collected all the pieces yet. Crystals can also be used to buy the majority of items available in the shop, including food items that restore energy points. Crystals can also be used to open up new items to give to friends as free gifts before you reach a high enough level, and to refresh the list of game generated players you can invite to be friends earlier than its normal 8-hour refresh rate.

(Taken from Guides   Getting Started)