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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1760584" data-attributes="member: 945">Right. 3rd edition uses a 50 coins to 1 lb ratio.  Previous editions used a rather unrealistic 10:1 ratio.Here is the text from Artificer's Handbook on the weight and volume of coins:"Fifty gold coins weigh one pound. For discussion purposes, assume that a gold coin is the size of a U.S nickel (3/4 in. diameter). A stack of fifty nickels is 3-3/4 in. tall. 8 stacks deep by 8 stacks long, and 50 nickels high is 3,200 nickels and weighs 64 pounds (using our 50 coins=1 pound basis). These coins consume a space 7-in. x 7-in. x 3-3/4 in. (183.75 cubic inches). AStaff of Power has a market price of 200,000 gold coins. This many coins takes up just over 11,484 cubic inches (957 cubic feet) which is a pile of coins 9.8-ft. x 9.8-ft. x 9.8-ft., and would weigh 2 tons (4,000 pounds)."A chest at 2 cubic feet is 3,456 cubic inches (24*12*12).Dividing 3,456 by 183.75 cubic inches per 3,200 coins yields 18.8 sets of 3,200 coins.That's 60,186 gold coins in a standard chest.  That's assuming they are perfectly stacked, and probably also (at least mathematically) assumes that there is no space left over, which we know to be inaccurate, since coins are round, not square.  This would also weigh over 1,200 pounds.I would say that a 50% ratio of just dumping coins in there would be adequate.  To test this, you could just find a container, measure it, and dump in some quarters and see what percentage of them you get in there based on optimum math.  That's a little anal retentive, though, even for me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />However, it wou</blockquote>

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