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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 2339152, member: 69760&quot;]How about creative accounting with numbers that <i>sound</i> reasonable?</p><p><br /></p><p>So... maybe they took the gold troy ounce value in 1909 ($18.96), multiplied it by the number of gold coins purported to be in that shipwreck (150,000)... and made a counterfactual calculation that if it were in a bank accruing interest at I don&#039;t know, 5.63189003516% compounded annually, it would be worth exactly $1 billion down to the cent at the end of 2016.</p><p><br /></p><p>(They&#039;d also be assuming that each gold coin weighs a troy ounce, but rounding is ok, right? There may be a few more extra gold pieces we&#039;re not adding so let&#039;s call it even.) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie76" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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