It Would Be Worth Your Weight in Galleons

[Whirdy at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 32933

There have been numerous posts on wizard money - knuts (or is it knutes) into 
sickels into galleons.  Bronze, silver and gold and muggle money,  too.

In GoF, CF reached into his pocket and took out a bag of 1000 galleons prize 
that he then gave to HP.  Later, HP nonchalantly donated this bag and its 
contents to G & FW for their joke shop.

If one estimates that galleons would have the size and weight befitting their 
value, then it follows that 1000 of them would not be as portable as 
indicated and quite bulky.

Are there perhaps other denominations of galleons?  A twenty-galleon piece or 
a hundred?  To the unitiated eye, such as HP's in CoS the single gold coin he 
noted in the Weasley vault might have been one of higher denomination.

This would then explain how Molly was able to outfit the Weasleys in CoS.

I don't know if there would be a need for a 5-knut piece (a rockne?) or a 
7-sickle coin (a hammer?), but it sure would help with the balance of 
payments question to have larger galleons.

Has it been established whether galleons are the international monetary 
standard in the wizards' world?

whirdy


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