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Bar of gold pressed latinum worth1/20/2024 The most commonly used forms are slips, strips, bars, and bricks, but it’s likely that some eccentric and incredibly wealthy Ferengi may also have entire swimming pools of the stuff. I remember them giving a ratio of how many slips of latinum go into a bar but the overall value of a bar is muddied for me by a couple things. To be used as an efficient currency, gold-pressed Latinum is often broken down into different sizes. ![]() The last known price of Gold Pressed Latinum is 0.09033494 USD and is up 0.00 over the last 24 hours. Gold, by contrast, is considered 'worthless' by some species, since it is easily replicated and has no practical use beyond decoration. It is one of the few substances which cannot be replicated, making it a limited resource, and giving it value. As such, there were no worries that the gold would affect, dilute, or taint the Latinum within. Gold Pressed Latinum has a current supply of 256,526.823088. Latinum is worth more than Gold by the time of DS9. The in-universe reason for using gold to encase liquid Latinum is that gold is a non-reactive metal. Dilithium is another substance impossible (so far) to replicate, as its molecular structure is so complex no known replicator is able to recreate it artificially. Because they can be replicated easily, they have been stripped of any value as a currency. ![]() This relates to why things like gold and diamonds, both highly valuable in today's society, are no longer worth anything in the world of Star Trek. The Latinum Bricks Floor Trophy costs 400,000 GPL. ![]() Bricks The exchange rate from bars to bricks is unknown. The Latinum Bars Floor Trophy costs 300,000 GPL. The currency known as 'gold-pressed latinum' is ubiquitous in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but what if we could assign an actual modern currency value to it. The exchange rate from bars to bricks is unknown. Latinum worked so well as currency throughout the majority of the Alpha Quadrant not only because it was an incredibly rare substance, but it was impossible to replicate (yet another example of the limitations of replicator technology). Bars One bar of gold-pressed latinum is equal to twenty strips or 2,000 slips of latinum.
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