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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;serdogthehound, post: 5327785, member: 111388&quot;]posted the first part elsewhere</p><p>Here is something for a estimate a suit of armor was around 5 pounds at minimum or 15 gold nobles. In the <i>Hedge Knight</i> Ser Duncan the Tall pays just about 4 Dragons for a good but plain suit of Armor. If that was to hold each Gold Dragon would be worth a value close to 4 gold nobles and the weight would be 28 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>One Gold Dragon would there be worth 1 pound and 6 shilling and 8 pence using the year of the armors value as a base. We plug that number into measuring worth and find that one dragon as the modern value of between 1,069 and 805,400&nbsp; pounds in 2019.</p><p><br /></p><p>Beyond the real price at 1,069 all the other numbers x 3 would be an amount that would reasonable for a vagabond hedge knight like Ser Duncan the tall to live on. There may have also been some inflation in the 50 years of relative peace of the later Targaryen kings. </p><p><br /></p><p>So yes 40,000 dragons is a massive amount but remember Robert basically bankrupted the kingdom (That was super wealthy in cash when he came the throne) plus Westros is more the size of Europe so..</p><p><br /></p><p>the currency is a lot better then most fantasy the Hand Tournament not withstanding in medieval europe a gold coin was a month&#039;s or more&nbsp; wages for an average person&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://armstreet.com/news/the-cost-of-plate-armor-in-modern-money" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://armstreet.com/news/the-cost-of-plate-armor-in-modern-money" rel="nofollow">https://armstreet.com/news/the-cost-of-plate-armor-in-modern-money</a></p><p><a href="https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Currency" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Currency" rel="nofollow">https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Currency</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_(English_coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_(English_coin)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_(English_coin)</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/relativevalue.php?use%5B%5D=CPI&amp;use%5B%5D=WAGE&amp;year_early=1441&amp;pound71=1&amp;shilling71=4&amp;pence71=&amp;amount=1.2&amp;year_source=1441&amp;year_result=2020" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/relativevalue.php?use%5B%5D=CPI&amp;use%5B%5D=WAGE&amp;year_early=1441&amp;pound71=1&amp;shilling71=4&amp;pence71=&amp;amount=1.2&amp;year_source=1441&amp;year_result=2020" rel="nofollow">https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/relativevalue.php?use[]=CPI&amp;use[]=WAGE&amp;year_early=1441&amp;pound71=1&amp;shilling71=4&amp;pence71=&amp;amount=1.2&amp;year_source=1441&amp;year_result=2020</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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