On the Subject of Money

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 26591

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch 
<rowena_grunnion_ffitch at y...> wrote:
>    Does anybody have any idea how Galleons compare to
> pounds/dollars?

JKR said that a Galleon is worth five pounds (around seven 
dollars), which correlates with the values stated in Dumbledore's 
prefaces to the textbooks as to how much money Comic Relief has 
raised for charity, but doesn't correlate with most of the other 
references to money in canon. The other references all make 
more sense if a Galleon is in the $25 to $40 range.