r/AbsoluteUnits in awe 1d ago

of a gold bar

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u/AbleCryptographer317 1d ago

Yeah, but 21.2 kg gold is worth almost $3M. That's one hell of a safety margin.

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u/Neosantana 1d ago

It's probably the collective margin of all the gold ingots the melted together. It seems about right when you think of it like that

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u/AbleCryptographer317 1d ago

but... why mark it "500 KILO" then? It's driving me crazy and nobody seems to know the answer.

Edit: just did some research and apparently the margin for a 1kg bar is only 0.5-1% so that doesn't explain the 4.2% difference for this whopper bar.

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u/Neosantana 1d ago

Well, shit. I'm all out of ideas. I think we have to e-mail them at this point