So - How many 1/4 eagles does it take ....

to make a 5 pound gold coin with two look a like ugly images on it

http://news.coinupdate.com/royal-mint-launches-five-pound-gold-coin-piece-1492/

 

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240

 

are you sure? There are 12 ounce pounds and 16 ounce pounds. Then there is Pound Sterling, and Lord Stirling.

 

12 x 5 x ... oh forget it....

 

I went with good old troy pounds.

 

Yeah - did you figure out how much gold is in a 1/4 eagle?

If you start spitting out math at 2AM I'm gonna growl.

 

Oh, I apologize, I was incorrect.

The weight of the base metal referred to as "crown gold" is 0.2727 times the purity 0.9167 is 0.2499840. Five troy pounds is 60 ounces. So 60 divided by 0.2499840 is 240.01536.

So it will take 240.01536 1/4 ounce American Eagles to equal that ugly coin.

Sorry for the confusion.

 

1909 2 DOLLARS OR
QUARTER EAGLE
Designer: Bela Lyon Pratt
Diameter: 18 millimeters
Metal Content:
Gold - 90%
Copper - 10%
Weight: 64.5 grains (4.18 grams)


Don't make me pull out my Pharmacy calculation books.

 

Oh, sorry again.

It would take 452.14566 of Ms. Pratts two dollar coins to equal that ugly coin.

Please accept my apologies.

 

What? Explain yourself?

 

Cone on, give me a hard one!
It's 5

 

:thumb:

 

ALL of you must have had a window seat in arithmetic class.

A quarter eagle contains 0.121 Troy ounce of gold (per Redbook). The £5 coin (the article says) is equal in weight to 5 sovereigns (0.2354 Troy ounces, each, per Krause). Assuming they are the same fineness, 5 sovereigns contain 5 x 0.2354 Troy ounces of gold, or about 1.18 Troy ounces.

Divide 1.18 by 0.121 and you get approximately 9.75 quarter eagles to make one £5 coin. Who said 240? The British coin would be the size of a dinner plate.

 

My Lord that is an ugly coin. I didn`t even know what I was looking at.....I honestly thought it was a headless horseman at first.

 

So did I. I had to examine it very closely to determine that it was actually an image of St George killing the dragon. They would have been better off using Kandinsky

 

good

 

Is that 5 British Pounds, meaning their currency? If so, then we are talking 5 quarter ounces.

 

The ANSWER is 9.75 quarter eagles; go back and read my post, above.

 

And if he meant 1/4 oz gold eagles the answer is 4.7

The 5 pound coin only has 36.62 grams of gold in it.