How Much Money You Need To Realistically Recreate The Scrooge McDuck ‘Gold Coin Swim’?

Umm gold is at 1665 dollars a ounce. So your looking at 162,114,390.00 million dollars not counting the paper bills, the various gems pictured, and the fact that the depth you calculated does not match the 90' sign. Lets face it, the duck has more money that most small countries.

there is only one way to ensure the accuracy of Mr. Farriers math. EVERYONE send me your loose change upon the arrival the funds in full, i will post a video of myself trying the breast stroke in said money.

Yeah, the gold price was terribly far off.

If you read the article he's referring to ONE small pile of gold in the vault. After suggesting the total of the pile is $486,380 he then proceeds to adjust for inflation saying, "Scrooge McDuck was first drawn in 1947, therefore inflation must be adjusted for which totals a whopping 5.2 billion dollars per pile." After analyzing several more photos number from 30.2 billion up to 75 billion are giving. At the end of the article there is a sentence by the writer, about the writer, "Matt Powers is in his early twenties-ish. He is also good at making up fake math." Clearly, this is all made up.

Are you fuckingg serious? Do you really think gold is $5 per ounce? Silver alone is around $30 at this very moment... where the actual hell did you come up with $5 ??????

+1 to Biggles.

The duck talks and wears spats, and the inaccuracy you're concerned that gold is too dense to swim in?

It's not possible to swim in that!

I once worked in a vault. I was responsible for 500,000 dollars. I was kind of surprised that you could fit it all into a large suitcase. And I did think about how much "coinage" it would take to swim in that vault. But in my formula I used 50¢ and 2$ coins. Because I thought it would be easier to fill the volume of the room quicker. And because smaller denominations eventually sift towards the bottom. I do not recall what my final estimate was, but it was well into the millions for a small room no bigger than 12 x10.

As for the actual swimming, well he's a duck, so he could swim on top of it. Maybe dive down every now and then. But not swim in it how people swim.
It would be difficult for a human to jump in a pool of money and take a swim, as if it were a lake.
I do recall an episode of Family Guy, where a Scrooge McDuck reference is made. Then Peter jumps into the vault of money only to be injured, because coins are solid.

@CYBret

True, the money is a solid and not a liquid, BUT he's the only one who can swim in it because he has a lot of practice.

All the gold in the world would fit in a cube 60 feet (roughly 20 m) on a side. Uncle Scrooge seems to have cornered the market.

Who did this math? Rain Man?

How much is this candy bar?
About five dollars...

How much is an ounce of gold?
About five dollars, definitely five dollars...

This post is worthless. Neatorama, you are going down hill. Fast.

Aaaaagghh! It's not a liquid! It's a great many pieces of solid matter that form a hard floor-like surface! Aaaaaaagh!

@John Farrier - Still not sure why he thought that being as every pic I saw of the vault had it being really tall. Turns out this was investigated back in '09 and with the help of the creator of Scrooge McDuck on the vault size, its actually in the trillions.

http://www.wolfgnards.com/index.php/2009/08/27/how-rich-is-scrooge-mcduck

So let's re-do the math with the new assumptions:

Proposed cost of 1 oz of gold: $5
Jim D's estimate: $1650
Multiplication factor of 330 (1650/5)

Proposed depth of the money bin: 5 ft
mE! observation: 90 ft per the drawing
Multiplication factor of 18 (90/5)

Revised estimate:
$486,830 * 330 * 18 = $2,891,770,200

Which would put Scrooge McDuck right behind Steven Spielberg and Donald Trump in the US (according to Forbes)

I didn't think that his 'hoard' was gold coins... just regular currency (the equivalent of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters in Duckburg).

Also, his vault goes very deep, much deeper than 5 ft.

I like the idea behind this 'fake' math experiment, just need more data from the show to make it authentic.

@mE.! -- in fairness, this was simply one image of the McDuck vault that I chose, and not necessarily one that Powers was using for data.

"this large pile of gold on the left appears to be five feet tall."

Except that he seems to have completely missed the 90' depth sign.

Without checking the rest of the math... 1 oz of gold == around $1650.00, so... those piles are worth an awful lot more.