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<blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 6593887" data-attributes="member: 50304">The Solidus is small, and justifiably so. Gold is dense. Most people really have no idea how heavy gold is compared to copper and silver, or how heavy those are compared to, say, rocks. A pound of gold takes up little more than half the space of a golf ball. The real problem is the Pirate Treasure Chest with Gold Doubloons. That's the cartoon image of the &quot;gold coins in a treasure chest&quot; mentioned above. Those darn things (doubloons) are 27 grams! They are 16 doubloons to a pound of gold, and they are much thinner than they appear in cartoons and movies. Even by 50 coins / lb. standards they are way off scale - worth more than 3GP on the 50-coins/pound scale.A treasure chest filled with gold coins like you'd see in a &quot;Pirates&quot; movie is completely useless. Just going by basic footlocker dimensions and assuming loose coins take up around 75% of the volume of a container you're talking about 3,000 lbs of gold. The wood would break apart if you could actually lift it by the handles, which would require you to be some sort of magical giant! We're talking about lifting a classic Volkswagen Beetle with 4 adult passengers still inside. Not happening.And then consider that silver takes up about twice as much space per pound. If people are carrying around fake-pirate-treasure sized Gold Pieces their Silver Pieces (that weigh the same on the D&amp;D scale) are bigger than any conventional coin and the copper pieces might as well be small tea saucers.Give me small, semi-realistic &quot;Gold Crowns&quot; the size of dimes any day.Marty Lund</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mlund, post: 6593887, member: 50304"] The Solidus is small, and justifiably so. Gold is [B]dense[/B]. Most people really have no idea how heavy gold is compared to copper and silver, or how heavy those are compared to, say, rocks. A pound of gold takes up little more than half the space of a [B]golf ball[/B]. The real problem is the Pirate Treasure Chest with Gold Doubloons. That's the cartoon image of the "gold coins in a treasure chest" mentioned above. Those darn things (doubloons) are 27 grams! They are 16 doubloons to a [B]pound[/B] of gold, and they are [B]much[/B] thinner than they appear in cartoons and movies. Even by 50 coins / lb. standards they are [B]way[/B] off scale - worth more than 3GP on the 50-coins/pound scale. A treasure chest filled with gold coins like you'd see in a "Pirates" movie is completely useless. Just going by basic footlocker dimensions and assuming loose coins take up around 75% of the volume of a container you're talking about [B]3,000 lbs of gold[/B]. The wood would break apart if you could actually lift it by the handles, which would require you to be some sort of magical giant! We're talking about lifting a classic Volkswagen Beetle [B]with 4 adult passengers still inside[/B]. Not happening. And then consider that silver takes up about twice as much space per pound. If people are carrying around fake-pirate-treasure sized Gold Pieces their Silver Pieces (that weigh the same on the D&D scale) are bigger than any conventional coin and the copper pieces might as well be small tea saucers. Give me small, semi-realistic "Gold Crowns" the size of dimes any day. Marty Lund [/QUOTE]

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