# 14 mg of 24 k au. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 13, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654 "2012-02-13T01:37:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/1 "2012-02-13T01:37:25Z")
Saw an ad that said the coins were plated with fourteen miligrams of twenty four karat gold. I suck at story problems. Is this much gold worth even a dollar? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/2 "2012-02-13T01:42:36Z")
At $1500/troy ounce-about 67.5 cents. ---
**Author:** ![andrewm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@andrewm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewm)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/3 "2012-02-13T01:44:29Z")
No, according to [Gold Coin Values - Coinflation (Live Gold Prices)](http://www.coinflation.com/gold_coin_values.html) it’s worth a little more than 70 cents. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/4 "2012-02-13T01:45:34Z")
14 mg is 14/1000th of a gram, or 0.014 grams. A troy ounce of gold is 31.1035 grams. Therefore this is 0.00045 ounces of gold. At $1722.56 at the moment I’m typing this, that makes it $0.775 worth of gold. So no, not even a dollar’s worth of gold. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/5 "2012-02-13T01:45:54Z")
According to [Gold Price Calculators](http://goldprice.org/Calculators/Gold-Price-Calculators.html), gold is currently at $55.38 US per gram, 0.05538 per milligram. So the 14 milligram comes to a little over 77 cents, unless I misplaced a decimal point… ---
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/6 "2012-02-13T01:49:00Z")
AThanks, y’all are fast. If you don’t mind what else weighs about that? A postage stamp? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/7 "2012-02-13T01:55:09Z")
Hmmm…there’s something oddly familiar about the thread title. Can’t quite put my finger on it…😛 ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/8 "2012-02-13T01:55:20Z")
First thing that comes to my mind is a grain of rice, which weighs about 20 mg if the first page of a google search can be trusted. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/9 "2012-02-13T02:00:16Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Hmmm…there’s something oddly familiar about the thread title. Can’t quite put my finger on it…😛 I know, it scared me too. ---
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/10 "2012-02-13T02:07:13Z")
I knew it would get views if I stated it thus. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/11 "2012-02-13T02:58:26Z")
> [@](#): > > about 67.5 cents. > [@](#): > > a little more than 70 cents. > [@](#): > > $0.775 worth of gold. > [@](#): > > a little over 77 cents, Thereby proving, once and for all, that gold is perfectly stable and universally-valued, and never changes its value. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/12 "2012-02-13T03:05:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I know, it scared me too. I clicked with serious trepidation… ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/13 "2012-02-13T03:11:15Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Thereby proving, once and for all, that gold is perfectly stable and universally-valued, and never changes its value. But don’t you see the obvious trend? GOLD is always INCREASING in value! The price of GOLD has increased 15% since this thread was started! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/14 "2012-02-13T04:35:11Z")
A good way to find out stuff like this is to use [Wolfram Alpha](http://www.wolframalpha.com/). If you’ve never used it before, Wolfram Alpha is a sort of advanced search and calculation engine, and it is pretty good at looking at your query and working out what information you are after. If you type **value of 14 mg of gold** into Wolfram Alpha, it gives you the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/15 "2012-02-13T04:53:52Z")
But won’t Wolfram Alpha eat my pets and kill me in my sleep? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/16 "2012-02-13T05:09:44Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > But won’t Wolfram Alpha eat my pets and kill me in my sleep? And then it’s buddy Wolfram Hart will sue you for having choked on your dog and for you making a mess when you died. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-mg-of-24-k-au/612654/17 "2012-02-13T13:26:51Z")
> [@lazybratsche](#): > > But don’t you see the obvious trend? GOLD is always INCREASING in value! The price of GOLD has increased 15% since this thread was started! The gold is still worth the same. The dollar has devalued while you’ve been reading this.