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by azuredragon 1405 days ago
To put that into perspective, that’s only enough gold to bathe 3 metric Scrooge McDucks!
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Does that mean that it's not enough to fill his money bin?
Maybe if we take into account the packing coefficient of coins and other miscellaneous booty it works out.
The Money Bin is said to be 39 meters tall, and 37 meters per side. Pennies have a packing efficiency of 57%, so a cube of the Money Bin's contents would be 2.5x the volume of the real-world's gold supply.
Well, the money bin is filled with coins (some notes as filler as well), most of which have never been minted out of gold :D
But are they gold coins? We can see Scrooge diving into and swimming through it. Either they are light and have low plasticity, or Scrooge is denser than any known element, and stronger than any known living creature.
Money is to Scrooge what the sun is to Superman. So under the right conditions, Scrooge is denser than any known element, and stronger than any known living creature.