What is that thing that sometimes replaces your money count on the UI when you equip a magical weapon? It goes down over time. Is it how much charge the weapon has?
That miniwindow shows how many amunition has the weapon you have equiped, and if there is no weapon which uses ammo equiped, it shows how many money you've got. Tha ammo is for weapons using arrows/amunition/charges/fuel, but in case of some magickal weapons, it shows how many mana they give you. The mana are like bonus fatigue points which you use for casting spells and are used and drained in the sequence firstly, before fatigue. They always regenerate just like fatigue, but in portions of 8 and take longer to regenerate.