01-21-2022, 04:38 PM | #1 |
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Coinage Help
I'm trying to find the weight for an electrum coin worth $200 using DF Treasures 1 and Pyramid 3/119 After the End II. I'm truly stumped. (My wife is stumped, too, so I know I'm in trouble.)
What I'm looking for is the weight in ounces to convert to pounds to find the count/pound and also figure out the diameter of the coin. Ideally, I'd like to know how to figure out the coin's composition, too. (It's a 1:1 Au:Ag electrum, nothing fancy.) The example given in 3/119 After the End II on p 36 is helpful, but I don't know the final weight of the coin. All I know is that I need an electrum coin worth $200. If someone can help, I'm obviously not great at math - simple terms please. (I tried searching the forums, but my search-fu failed me.) |
01-21-2022, 05:54 PM | #2 | |
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01-21-2022, 06:05 PM | #3 |
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01-21-2022, 06:19 PM | #4 |
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Re: Coinage Help
I think it's like $210, but it's close enough.
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01-21-2022, 07:43 PM | #5 |
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Re: Coinage Help
For a coinage system I came up with some time ago, I actually worked out how much each US coin would be worth if made of each of the various materials I intended to use (copper, silver, igneum, electrum, crown gold, pure gold, and finally platinum). Now, I changed the worth of most of the metals, but if I set electrum to the same $10,500/lb as DF (the average between silver's $1,000/lb and gold's $20,000/lb), I see a penny-sized coin would be worth $135, while a nickel-sized one would be worth $269. So, your $200 electrum coin is right between a penny and a nickel in size. There would be 52.5 such coins to the pound.
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01-21-2022, 07:58 PM | #6 | |
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