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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2170528, member: 27832&quot;]A troy ounce of gold (or anything else) is 31.1 grams, and a dollar bill weighs about 1 gram, so the actual ratio is closer to 1.125:1 -- you&#039;d have needed one and an eighth pounds of $1 bills to buy a pound of gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, all bills weigh about the same regardless of denomination. Even today, a stack of $50 bills would buy more than its own weight in gold; a stack of $20s would buy about half its own weight in gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>One more thought -- in 1962 or 1963, high-denomination paper was still in circulation. A game show probably wouldn&#039;t have been able to get $5000 or $10000 notes, but a stack of $1000 bills would have bought <b>888 times</b> its own weight in gold![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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