Wizarding Money

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 8775


> heiditandy says, we don't know how large they are - and they're not
> shaped like Muggle money -
> catlady_de_los_angeles says, The wizarding money is all boringly 
round.
> Ron was amused at the 50p coin because it ISN'T round. That is a 
great
> disappointment to those of us who wanted the Sickle to be crescent
> shaped.

Are you saying that the 50p coin is NOT round? Ron sees the coin and 
is surprised...he says: "Weird! What a shape! This is money?" So 
whatever shape the 50p coin is, Wizard money ISN'T. None of it, or 
Ron wouldn't have been surprised to see the shape.


> heiditandy says, no, I think the knuts aren't round. If they were, 
they
> would stack and in the vault, they dont

Not proof, though. One of the rules of swag states that coins must be 
heaped in order to look more opulent. It wouldn't seem as exciting if 
the vault had contained many many coins, all stacked in neat piles, 
some even rolled. Where's the decadence in that? 


> fizzwhizbee says, Galleons can't be size of hubcaps, can they?

GF doesn't say that Galleons or any other of the British Wizarding 
coins are the size of hubcaps. The folks who tried to pay Mr. Roberts 
with money that size were very likely foreign. He has just asked 
Arthur if they're foreign, and it's reasonable that he is thinking 
that way because he's run into so many other foreigners over the last 
coupld of days.

Steve Vander Ark
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