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Gold, silver, and the weight of fiat

Enter an amount of gold and compare it to the paper stack needed to match its value. The default uses $20 bills because a $20 gold piece once represented roughly one ounce of gold.

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One troy ounce of gold weighs about 31.1 grams — roughly 28 grams in everyday shorthand.

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Gold, silver, and the weight of fiat

Price & weight calculator

Physical vs paper burden

Paper vs physical contract ratio