Wizard Economics

[blenberry]

No: HPFGUIDX 33633

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "judyserenity" <judyshapiro at e...> wrote:

> Well, wizard money seems to be actual metal -- gold, silver, 
bronze.  >snip<
>There does seem to be a problem with the exchange rate that JKR has 
> mentioned in interviews. (I think it was about $7 per galleon.) The 
> amount of gold per galleon is too small for a useful coin.  
> Gold is very dense and a gram of gold is tiny; 7/9th of a gram  
>would be a teensy coin. 


Is it possible that the coins are not solid gold, but sandwich coins 
such as the American dime?  Perhaps galleons are just a gold 
*colored* coin.


Barbara