Harry Potter: How Much Would a Big Mac Cost In The Wizarding World

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey brother! I'm sure right away that if you clicked on this video you're probably wondering to yourself
0:04.8	why would anybody wonder what the cost of a Big Mac would be in the Wizarding World?
0:09.2	And like, geez, I'm getting to it.
0:11.2	Calm down.
0:12.0	Last week here on the Super Carlin Brothers channel,
0:13.8	we made a video talking about how much a Wizarding Gold Galleon
0:17.2	might be worth out here in the real world.
0:19.5	The original estimates for how much a gold galleon might be worth is approximately five to seven
0:24.3	dollars however if it is in fact made of genuine pure gold then it's worth a heck of
0:29.2	a lot more in the muggle world I won't bore you with all the specific details
0:33.1	because I made an entire video about it already,
0:35.1	but I basically made the assumption
0:36.7	that a Galleon is the same size as a British pound,
0:39.2	figured out how much weight and gold that would be,
0:41.2	and figured out then what his value would be.
0:43.1	The end result was 22.5 grams of gold, which in US currency would translate to nearly
0:48.5	$1,400.
0:51.0	To be fair, in my last video, many of you did point out in the comments down below that back in
0:54.8	1991 the value of gold was actually considerably less, making this conversion rate closer to one
1:00.0	Galleon being worth $275.
1:02.8	Either way though, the ramifications of this bit of information
1:06.0	are pretty startling to say the least.
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