Re: [DL] Weight of gold coins

[Greg Campbell <gcampbel@vt.edu>]

$20 Double Eagles contain .9675 troy ounces of gold.
And there are 12 troy ounces to the pound.  So there's
about 12 coins to the pound.

$15,000 would be 750 $20 coins.  About 62.5 pounds.


At 05:21 PM 7/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>     Here's a reference question for the list serv.  Approximately how 
> much would $15,000 in Confederate Gold coins weigh?
>           Daniel Gwyn
>"Yeah, I'm bitter.  Dyin' does that to you."
>Pete Josephson (1845-1878)