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Wizarding currency, [1] sometimes known as wizarding money, [2] was the currency used by the wizarding world. Wizards were not averse to using currency with convoluted denominations, because they were easily able to solve complex calculations with magic. [3] Wizarding currencies varied from country...
Wizarding Money consists of Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts. "Wizarding Money" is first discovered in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, chapter 5, Diagon Alley, "Arriving at Diagon Alley".
As we all know, wizard money is made up of gold galleons, silver sickles, and bronze knuts. In the first book, when Harry is getting money out of his vault for the first time, Hagrid tells him the exchange rates between them, which are: 17 sickles= 1 galleon. 29 knuts= 1 sickle. (493 knuts= 1 galleon)
But did you ever wonder how J.K. Rowling came up with this seemingly confusing system of wizard money? Hagrid explains how it works in the first book, telling Harry that there are 29 knuts to a sickle, 17 sickles to a galleon, and that “it’s easy enough” to work out.
Wizarding money came in three denominations in the United Kingdom: bronze Knuts, silver Sickles and gold Galleons. There were 29 Knuts to a Sickle and 17 Sickles to a Galleon. In the UK wizards kept their money in the Goblin -run Diagon Alley based Gringotts bank.
Feb 3, 2016 · By comparing expenses in "Harry Potter" to how much things cost in the Muggle world, the Redditor deduced the approximate value of wizarding money compared to U.S. currency. According to Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, here's the breakdown of the exchange rates for wizard currency. 17 sickles = 1 galleon.
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