Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Chronos 07-08-04, 07:34 PM	I havn't been able to find it in any books and I need to know so that I can know how much treasure my char. can carry, can anyone help me?
Nagol 07-08-04, 07:49 PM	50 coins of any type weigh one pound. So, 100 coins weighs 2 pounds.
Kheldren 07-09-04, 11:03 AM	If you do it by the rules then yes, 50 coins weighs 1lb no problem In the old days of AD&D then 10 gp weighed 1lb (I think) and a very early Imagine magazine worked out what this meant (I think it was in Roger Musson's Stirge Corner). At that weight 1gp came out the same size as an old UK 50p coin - basically you can assume a 1 inch diameter. He was looking at a 1 foot cubic box, and worked this out to be close enough to 12x12x100 so just over 1/10th of an inch thick. (This was 14,400 gp in the box - it weighed over 2/3 ton). The twist with this is it means at 50 coins to a pound each coin is 1/5th the size, so either the gold is very adulterated, or gold coins are somewhat small and fiddly. (There used to be a gold penny in England, but I think we are talking a bit bigger than that). If your DM is feeling mean, carrying the coins is not the problem - carrying them without the container breaking (gold is very dense) is the problem - sacks will give at seams etc, unless there is a lot of padding or very little in the sack. Good luck