$1,440 in 2006 for four bars + 4 years inflation = current price http://christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=4779964
When We get the synthesizer fixed. I'll Sell you all you want for 10 Stars an oz. My avatar is silver pressed Halfnium,
I just got 25 oz of latinum of a trader for a new phaser if that tells you anything about the price. Very depressed right now on that market.
At a Star Trek convention, I bought myself a Federation ID card that shows me as the purser on a Ferengi freighter. My line is that being a human, they figure that I am too stupid to cheat them, so they trust me more than they trust each other. In the December 2008 Numismatist, the humor columnist wrote about non-existent coins -- "Xeno-numismatics" -- but I considered that and for my November 2009 column, I wrote about the coins made by New Zealand, Isle of Man, and others for Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Narnia. I also found the Christies auction for Star Trek props and other sites selling Battlestar Galactica "cubits" both coins and notes (http://archive.battlestarprops.com/). Top place went to TRUE DUNGEONS a live action D&D that uses coins for markers. They started with woods but found a casino chip maker who have them plastic over metal for a nicer product. I bought and traded for about 100. So, as in Dungeons and Dragons, I have different armors and weapons, potions and scrolls, magics and more. Usually, I play a human ranger -- good midrange character -- but for this, I went for Bard and got the magic ink, scroll of languages, potion of understanding, and such.
The "gold pressed" part always intriged me. Why "pressed"? And it always seemed odd that you would press gold around a liquid. (Yes latinum is apparently a liquid at around body temperature.) I suppose you could freeze the latinum and then press the gold around it. I assume gold was used to prevent the loss of latinum from corrosion of the outer container. (corrode a hole in the container and your latinum leaks out.) This leads to other questions. How much latinum is in a strip? And there seem to be at least two sizes of bars, and a strip is 1/10 of a bar, but which one.
