Currency 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 PoE Items to any town vendor. There are lots of ways to make currency:
Chaos Recipe and Rare Items
This is unlikely to interest experienced players, but it will be useful for beginners to find out...
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