We all know there are 29 knuts to a sickle, and seventeen sickles to a galleon. But how much are they all worth? How many dollars to a knut, a sickle, or a galleon?

Any Ideas?

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omg i have no idea when i read the books and money comes up im like agh!!! cuz i dont understand it lol

lmao! iknow! well, i was trying to figure it out. Reading Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, there is a price sticker on the back. it says 3.99, or 14 sickles 3 knuts, so i was sitting there tyring to figure it out. (ok, 27 knuts to a sickle, so if a sickle was a dollar it'd be like 100 knuts, but its 27 knuts, so minus one galleon, and then you'd divide by 3.99...) lol.
Well, there used to be this website that had a money converter, and for a short time it converted money into knuts sickles & galleons, but they don't have that anymore, so i never got a chance to look at it =[

Man!I have no clue.Probably there is 100 knuts to a dollar.Seems like it to me!

I think that people think it's probably a hundred knuts to a dollar because it is the easiest counting amount that can be divided, multiplied, etc. That's the I think, mostly because if it was any other amount I would be like, "for get it, I'll just go to Gringotts and have the Goblins work it out."

When in need of HP info, don't forget to check the Lexicon . They have a HP currency conversion tool.

1 galleon = $9.92(USD)

100 knuts = $2.01(USD)


Pleione

How does it logically make sense that a gold coin the size of a hub-cap is only worth 9.92?

I don't think it is really the size of a hub-cap. I think Mr. Roberts is exaggerating. Besides, if he isn't, it could be foreign wizard money, I don’t think they're the same for each country. I find $9.92 is a reasonable amount.

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things are so much less complicated now =]

ok, so according to the converter:
1 knut= about 2 cents
1 sickle= about58 cents
1 galleon= about $9.92

Just trying out the HP Lexicon conversion tool for Muggle British pounds and this is what I got:

1 knut = a penny
1 sickle = 29p
1 galleon = a fiver or £5

You can also convert wizard money to Leprechaun gold as well:

Guess what you get!

A big fat zero!

So £1000 galleons which was Harry's Triwizard Tournament winnings, nee Fred and George would be £5000 0r $9220.

I think it very likely that he did not mean the kind of hub-cap that covers the entire wheel, but rather the kind that is only a center decoration. Because really if the money was that big it would be impractical to handle, even if they had some way of carrying it.