Dollars to Latinum?

[Tyjos Azari]

Well I've wondered just how would one be able to Exchange rate of Dollars to Latinum?

What the Echange Rate is of Latinum?

I know there are slips of Latinum, then you got your bars of Latinum.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Latinum

 

[SpyOne]

Well, we know that the US dollar appears to have survived at least until Cochrane invented warpflight, but we don't really know how much longer it survived. I think it probably went away to be replaced by the official currency of the United Earth Government. So a strip of latinum could get you an infinite number of dollars, as dollars are worthless.

Unless collecting antique currency is in vogue. Even then, ... I recall a few decades ago when I bought some British Pennies that were roughly 200 years old: they were not particularly scarce or rare, and were not in particularly good condition, and so they sold for the value of their metal, which also wasn't much. So dollar bills might be so common that they are routinely given to children to play with, or they might be so rare that Kivas Fajo wants them.

 

[Crewman47]

On that Memory Alpha page linked it says that a Cadet uniform cost 5 strips and a dress cost between 17 and 20 strips. Going by the average cost of clothing today where you can buy a dress from anywhere between $15 and $100 or more and a jumpsuit like a cadet uniform could cost around $30 then if you divide one by the other it should give you a rough idea.

So for example for a uniform at $30, or 5 strips, then that would make one strip equal $6, roughly. Now if one strip equlas then $6 the one slip would equal $0.06 and one bar would equal $120.

I think there has been a better attempt at finding the exchange rate before but I'm sure someone else would know more about it and I think they had the Dollar to latinum rated a bit higher.

 

[ClayHefner]

I'd say

1 slip= 25 cents
1 strip= 25 Dollars
1 Bar=500 Dollars

 

[T'Girl]

I remember a strip being able to buy a couple of drinks a Quark's, so three to five dollars as a exchange rate.