...mm. I'm afraid a half-dollar won't get very much...

[Okay, clearly he's a foreign student, but Alric would have expected he'd get more of an introduction at least to the exchange rate. ...then again exchange rates might not be much help for this fellow. Alric's still not quite sure how to speak to someone who seems to be a native speaker and isn't a small child, but can't handle big words, but he'll do his best to adapt, and to smile reassuringly.]

Well, for example, a bottle of water or juice or what-not might be a dollar... a sandwich, perhaps between five and ten. Probably less at a fast-food place, such as McDonalds, but I don't... really keep track of that sort of thing.

So a... toy sword that won't fall apart immediately... perhaps fifteen to twenty-five dollars, at a guess?