Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, Gold Pressed Latinum Bar, Metal, Limited Edition

The TNG novel ‘Balance Of Power’ has a ridiculous subplot about Wesley being forced by a Ferengi classmate from the Academy to replicate a bunch of gold pressed latinum. Everyone has sensors and can instantly scan for the latinum signature. A petty criminal has to be pretty stupid in order to think they could pass this off as GPL. Look at Morn’s entire net worth- Quark realizes nearly instantly that it’s just worthless gold.

How does this compare to the value of gold to the dollar? Curious since in the show Quark once described it as Liquid latinum encased in “worthless” gold. Quark also supposedly made about 5 bars a day in profit, which is about $935. If he keeps the bar open every day of the year, he’s making over $340,000 in profit per Earth year.

One bar of gold-pressed latinum is equal to twenty strips or 2,000 slips of latinum. The exchange rate from bars to bricks is unknown. As Star Trek would have it, life is so rosy in the future that folks don’t have any need for money. (Don’t ask us how they get stuff — it’s one of Star Trek’s fuzzier areas.) The Ferengi, on the other hand, love money — or rather, latinum, a highly precious liquid metal. It’s generally referred to as gold-pressed latinum, because it comes inside gold ingots, in denominations of slips, strips, bars, and bricks.

Denominations of gold-pressed latinum, in order of increasing value, according to canon include the Slip, the Strip, the Bar, and the Brick. Within Star Trek Online, the Latinum Ingot and the Latinum Pile are also mentioned as potential denominations. The Ingot is positioned between the Strip and the Bar, the Pile is placed after the Brick.

The exchange rate from strips to ingots is unknown, but presumably less than twenty strips. I think that it’s implied that the molecular structure is too complex. But that non replicatablilty gives it an abstract value similar to precious metals now. Gold isn’t really very good for much, but it’s rare so we value it.

Latinum is a rare silver liquid used as currency by the Ferengi Alliance and many other worlds. For ease of transaction, latinum is usually suspended within gold to produce “gold-pressed” latinum. Latinum is a rare silver liquid used as currency by many worlds, most notably the Ferengi Alliance. Latinum cannot be replicated and the reasons for its rarity are unknown.

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I don’t know how much latinum is a lot of latinum. Every time Quark is dealing with latinum he acts like it is the most latinum he has ever seen. So if anyone can make a brick of gold with their replicator, it loses all scarcity and thus all value. I’ve always theorized that it’s not encased in pure gold, but some kind of diluted gold alloy. That would make it both less expensive and more sturdy since pure gold is very soft and wouldn’t stay in good shape for long if it’s being handled a lot.

Every strip has X amount of Latinum, every bar has Y amount. Similar to Coins and Bills, though, if we’re honest, carrying around gold bars to pay for drinks would become extremely burdensome after a short while. Pure liquid latinum, which Quark estimated to be worth 100 bricks. Quark estimated this to be about 100 bricks’ worth. Fictitious precious material in the Star Trek universe, a very rare silver wrapped in gold.

And I’m not sure if that’s even counting his side-deals. So Rom could’ve recouped the cost of his investment in under 5 Earth years. Message This seller usually responds within a few hours. This seller consistently earned 5-star reviews, shipped on time, and replied quickly to any messages they received. It is unlikely that Quark was simply clueless about latinum, as – like his regular universe counterpart – he owned a bar. The mirror Quark complained about the Alliance taxes, though, so the mirror Quark’s bar must have used Alliance currency instead of latinum.

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Assuming 1 “GPL” is one slip, that means a bar of Gold-Pressed Latinum is worth about $187. It puts the value of Quark’s bar at somewhere between $1 million and $1.5 million USD toward the end of DS9 . This is really, really low considering how fast Quark was making money but maybe there are some unforseen factors. In “Past Prologue”, the value of latinum was defined by its weight, then “bars” were the unit of choice throughout DS9 Season 1. “Strips” were first referenced in “The Homecoming”, and slowly came into popular use during the latter half of DS9 Season 2.

Using rare metals could be a way of making currency hold it’s value across multiple planets. Perhaps gold looses its scarcity in a world where replicators can make any element and other useless things could be used to make gold. Perhaps gold retains some base value in that it could be broken down and reconstructed into other elements to make stuff, and that is where it allows for a value guarantee.

• Similar to Coins and Bills, though, if we’re honest, carrying around gold bars to pay for drinks would become extremely burdensome after a short while.
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• Gold isn’t really very good for much, but it’s rare so we value it.
• I’m guessing it’s chemical structure is too complicated.
• And I’m not sure if that’s even counting his side-deals.
• This seller consistently earned 5-star reviews, shipped on time, and replied quickly to any messages they received.

Latinum is also a liquid so they standardize a measurement and encase it in gold. You get some latinum and then exchange it for credits or something when you go to different planets. But some people only want to deal in latinum because you can guarantee it’s value. Does make you wonder though why a petty criminal cant just replicate a bunch of gold that looks like gold-pressed latinum, and try to pass it off for small purchases.

“Slips” were first referenced in DS9 Season 3 in “Family Business”, and the same year, “bricks” were first referenced in the VOY Season 1 episode “Learning Curve”. Want to hold your over-the-ear Bluetooth headphones/headset in style? Morn DS9 stolen gold-pressed latinum and hid it one of his second stomachs after stripping off the gold. Eventeny was founded on the belief that managing large-scale events with hundreds of exhibitors, vendors, sponsors, and volunteers should not be stressful and burdensome. Our mission is to remove event organizers from being the 5th most stressful job in the world. That’s why we built Eventeny and continue to work everyday on the biggest problems in the event industry.

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Quark states that the Divine Treasury is made of pure latinum. By creating an account, I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy https://cryptolisting.org/ Policy. The following provides comparison on the value of latinum for specific items. In addition, other units of quantity were used to value latinum.

We mostly see physical strips and bars in Quark’s , and in private hoardings; though we do see slips used as gratuities on Ferenginar. Quark conducts a lot of business via electronic funds transfers, which makes sense, as he could collect decimal-level fees on each transaction. They are graded according to quality, slip, strips, bars and bricks. Someone (Dax?) says once that people got tired of using tiny syringes to pay for their goods and services, so they suspended it into useless gold in standard amounts.

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Latinum is usually suspended within the element gold to produce the currency Gold Pressed Latinum . The exchange rate from bricks to piles is unknown. The global crypto market cap is $ with a 24-hour volume of $. The price of Bitcoin is $15,819.56 and BTC market dominance is %. The price of Ethereum is $1,107.89 and ETH market dominance is %. The best performing cryptoasset sector is Privacy, which gained 1%.

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One of the most important media of exhange outside the Federation was gold-pressed latinum. They explain why GPL is a currency (I can’t recall exactly) and why it can’t be replicated but I recall it having to do with the complexity of the molecule and scan of the counterfeit product. I’m guessing it’s chemical structure is too complicated. It doesn’t make quite as much sense for a metal as it does with say, dilithium crystals, but I think the logic holds up.

This Package contains models of 4 different gold bars. The basic shape of the bar is modeled while the fine detail as well as the writing is achieved via bump map. The texture psd is included so the bars can easily be customized. GPL isn’t much more than a plot-device and doesn’t really make much more sense than gold being such a valuable currency in our time.

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BTW, as of this post, 1 (I’m presuming) slip of Gold-Pressed Latinum is worth about one-tenth of the United States Dollar. You’re browsing the GameFAQs Message Boards as a guest. Sign Up for free to be able to What is Gold Pressed Latinum post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved.