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r0b0tc0rpse
500 kg of 100 dollar bills is $50,000,000, 1 dollar bills would be $500,000. 500 kg of gold is worth ~$68,000,000.
Gold it is.
KremlinOfAges
500kg of DDR5 thanks.
broote
If I have the gold I can use if as collateral for a loan and avoid taxes. (As the rich ppl do) If I take the cash that's capital gains tax and would probably cost me about 50% of the cash. (Federal and State taxes.) That alone makes me want the gold.
EllisHobbs
Gold all day, every day.
GravyEducation
I would probably choose the money to fall and crush me to death because then it would explode all over the place comically
EroticZombiePants
Honestly, this is a funny response, and I'd like to think there was some semblance of awareness when it was said. Then again, it is the internet ...
cjpoet
gimme gold
SandpaperCock
The gold is worth more, but converting it into a usable form (money) is a bit more work. I'd probably choose the gold but I honestly haven't the faintest how or where I'd sell 500kg of gold. Also depends on if this is legally acquired with all requisite documentation because the government would probably take notice of me trying to sell 500kg of gold out of nowhere, easier (still hard) to deal with the money... though US tender is not that helpful to me, all things considered. I'm picking gold.
FoxPesdassi
Are you saying that you DOUBT the wisdom and judgement of . . . [checks notes] "Evil Man"?
Resistance1000
No need to cripple the U.S. education system. It already is.
Whoisthisdoctorwho2000
Well he's not wrong... he's just not right
WillLickNudibranchsForBUzz
Can't carry either, soo... but cash, if I could. It doesn't matter whether I get 5 or 50 million, I'd be set either way.
SinStar87
but line go up.
ParaspriteHugger
To just have? Gold.
To get dropped on me? Tough choice...
PagetheFound
If it is the gold pictured, unless there is documentation to go with the gold, you can only sell it if you recast it.
SwissScars
what I like about Switzerland CHF 1,000 notes:
bittenicht39
1,000 CHF is currently about 1,256 USD. The largest note which will stay in regular circulation according to its central bank. (Other notes like the 10,000 SGD are phased out). About half of all cash in Swiss Francs is in 1,000 CHF bills.
albakSPrince
too much chance that it's $250.00 bills with trumps picture on them. i'll take the gold.
hollerfloozy
Like 5 minutes.. thats all it took for the smarts of imgur to figure this out.
Dontstopbelever2000ismyfavoritesoap
Okay so I looked it up and it's surprisingly close. 1kg of $100 bills is worth $100,000, while a kg of gold is $136,000. So I suppose the gold but still, not as different as I thought initially
nachosyndicate
Can I take any?
mediamatix
1 kg of gold goes for about $135,000.
Assuming all $100 bills (as are the ones I can tell), that amounts to $100,000.
You better off with the gold. Specially considering what the $ is going through.
torbtom
I’ll take 5kg of each, if I may, in a backpack. Can’t carry half a ton, and it’d attract too much unwanted attention.
an0therthr0waway
shyriath
THE POTATO STANDARD
bad1080
youreathing
Because steel is heavier than feathers.
bad1080
i heard that in his voice
RIP benny harvey
Pulger
I'd take the gold, just in case of an invasion by Mondasian Cybermen.
LtRooney
Ammonia floor cleaner also works in a pinch.
DYLANLEE79
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foreverinchains
500 kilograms of $100 bills is worth $50 million.
Gold is currently worth $4,218.30 USD, and there are 17,636.981 ounces in 500 kilograms.
That's $74,398,076.95.
Unfortunately, most places don't accept gold as currency, so you would need to exchange your gold for cash. You'd need to do this in small amounts, and you'll be doing it well below market rates.
The gold is worth much more, but is a huge hassle (at best) to deal with, while cash is cash.
I would take the cash.
CogYang
Why small amounts?
foreverinchains
There aren't many places that will accept large amounts of gold that won't get various government agencies involved, and those agencies are going to have a LOT of questions, as well as wanting a rather substantial cut of it.
CogYang
Didn't think there was a tax on gold and silver. So I guess they get to ask questions about where this gold came from, and you get to tell them about buttons.
Rathan5
And if they decide the money might have possibly been maybe related to the drug trade (or if they decide they want kickbacks on seized “drug” money) they just straight up civil forfeiture it and you’re up the creek without a paddle =\
CogYang
That would be true for large sums of cash as well
marthafarquar
There are 17,636.981 avoirdupois ounces in 500 kilograms, but gold is measured and traded in troy ounces and there are only 16,075.35 troy oz in 500kg worth $67,697,960
evilspock
If you have that much gold (with provenance) and low urgency to liquidate it immediately, market rates are attainable.
xeoxion
With 100$ bills you get 2835$ per ounce vs gold at 4500$ ish
If you can use 1000 bills the cash is more
MeowWoof
Google tells me that there's only like 165k $1000 bills in circulation, since they each weigh about a gram that's only 165kg.
GrandAdmlStrife
Highest bill still in print is 100. But yes, 500 and 1000 bills are still legal tender
notreallyaclevername
And $10,000
AzgarOgly
Gold is raising, bucks are getting cheaper.
MrKNRJ
If you can sell the gold at full price, sure. But finding someone who buys gold at full price is a pain, usually its closer to 50% of the value.
NChomsky
I'd still take the bills for the simple fact they're easier to move, split up, and stash. Plus they're immediately & directly usable as-is.
meganical
But, the U.S. government would be suspicious of the sudden cash you have so you’d have to launder it to keep it all like in Breaking Bad
NChomsky
I'd siphon it though multiple shit coins & have it shat back out as "clean" fiat paper when the funds have been sufficiently "mixed". I'd start through a zebra network first (for complete "zero trust" anonymity), then out through the network of a more 'accepted' shit coin like BTC (bitcoin). The second half of the battle is physically traveling everywhere, hitting every non-KYC Bitcoin ATM to collect fiat shit paper. You take a large loss due to laundering & gross fees but who cares, right?
Grimmrog
But gold will much much faste rgain value while the dollar with the current administration probably goes down the drain
thisisjunk
Gold. At $136 per gram, the gold would be ~$68 million. A US bill weighs about a gram, so the bills would be anywhere between $500,000 and $50 million. (as it doesn't specify the denomination)
Cataleast
On the other hand, I wouldn't have to try and sell the gold. That money'd be ready to go immediately. Yes, I'm that resistant to any sort of extra faff these days ;)
StevenFarmer
Fair, but which do you think will be easier to spend right away? And who are you going to with $68mil of gold
qarlific
Gold retains its value when split into fractions.
thisisjunk
(technically, at exactly $136 it would be exactly $68 million. but gold isn't exactly $136)
LogicalLimes
Meanwhile, while that looks like a lot, Elon Musk’s net worth is over 16,000 times larger than that. Freaking insane.
insaaanity
Slight correction: The money would likely be worth close to 0 if they are tracking the serial no. of the (presumably) stolen money with them closing in on you closer ans closer the more you spend w/ putting it in your bank account being out of the question.
The gold, on the other hand, can just be melted down and sold all over the place.
BeaverOnFire
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Imademyselfsquirtle
Yeah but who is not going to try to rip you off when you try to sell your gold.
MCpeepantz
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keelindsey
You can put a gold bar in a bag and beat someone with it, too. Cash isn't as versatile.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
The picture has C notes.
thisisjunk
Yes, but we have to assume the photo is an example not necessarily the actual item. And the photo isn't of the whole pile of bills. (the gold side would only need to be ~40 bars...) And the text just says "US dollars". So we cannot assume it's all $100s, hence the range I listed. Further: the text says "gold", but 14c and 24c are both 'gold' but are very different amounts of actual gold. Even though the photo shows gold bullion ingots, we can't see the markings and they may be less than 99.95.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
We ain't gotta assume shit. You're seeing evil genies in every hypothetical.
GSH116
They look like they're $100s.
CarInAVet
Also it's way cooler to have a giant pile of gold.
thisisjunk
"Giant" is relative. The bars in the picture look like what they call "Good Delivery" bars, which weigh 12.4kg each. So, 500kg would be about 40 1/3 bars.
CarInAVet
40 gold bars sounds like a giant pile to me.
thisisjunk
That's fair. They are pretty big bars... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Gold_bullion_2.jpg
Ree81
Did we really need the word 'denomination'? I could say "the type of bill" and get the same result.
thisisjunk
Just wait until you find out that gold is also referred to as 'specie', no 's'. But, you gotta ask yourself why you're bothered by words you don't recognize. Do you really expect to be able to know every word in every language you speak? The English lexicon alone has between 170,000 and 1 million words (depending on how you count, plus ~50k obsolete) And a well educated speaker will use about a 15 to 20k. In addition to the fact that new words and word usages are being minted constantly.
Cataleast
I'll be perfectly honest, you might be a bit of a thicky-thicky-dumb-dumb if you found the word "denomination" threatening enough to comment :D
Ree81
I'm multi-lingual and the word is difficult to spell and remember. Also there's no counter in my native language, and we get by just fine.
Also, you're rude.
Sorrontis
While everyone points out gold is worth more by weight, good luck selling that much gold without the government asking many questions.
SimSimSimsalabim
I wouldn't sell it as such, I would turn it into jewelry (rings, chains, armbands...) and sell it for even higher price.
EroticZombiePants
Good luck if Fort Knox actually even still has that much gold left in it.
keys79
Yeah the gold is worth more but it has to be liquidated before you can use it as currency, whereas the cash would be available now. Many places don’t accept large bills, so you’d still have some inconvenience. But good luck trying to buy gas for your car with a gold brick.
ALTEFFFOUR
The government can suck my star spangled ding dongs.
LogicalLimes
ding… dongs? Plural? 🤔😏
keys79
Two dings, one dong.
Sorrontis
fair. good luck fencing gold illegally then :)
ColdestOne
Who said anything about illegal? But still, I don't want to deal with selling a bunch of gold and if it drops to pre 2024 prices then the cash is a better deal.
Coltaine
Why would you sell all of it?
psyord
Who cares if they ask something? Turns out you can own stuff legally and you can also sell it legally. Tho you would not want to sell it because it's just going up in value. At best you chip in small amounts if you need the money.
Kotarisu
You own property up to the moment law enforcement "suspects" it being used for the drug trade. Which they will do for the kickbacks.
etopsirhc
unless they deem it suspicious and they send in the cops to "civil forfeiture" (aka legally rob you) your entire fortune.
sanguium
With that much money first step would be to leave the US.
CBadger
Which is hard to do with that much property without customs/coast guard/etc flagging it and we're back at civil forfeiture.
porcinechoirmaster
You should ABSOLUTELY take the gold. It's a capital asset, and our entire tax structure is based around giving capital the best possible outcome.
If you take cash, you either have to break the law (via tax evasion) or you have to pay income tax (which will be ~36%) on it immediately. If you take gold, you pay nothing up front, and a shifting scale (but not above 20%) based on how much you sell at once. There are also a ton of tricks you can do with capital assets to avoid taxes, as well: 1/2
porcinechoirmaster
The simplest route is to just sell <$48k worth per year, which will yield a 0% capital gains tax rate (doubled if you're married filing jointly.) You can also choose to sell more at once, up to $533k per year, and pay 15%.
If you want to be really clever, you take out an asset-backed loan against the gold and live on that. There are some risks to it, but also a bunch of benefits, and it's typically part of generational wealth estate planning.
MiserCrass
Like the government wont ask too many questions about millions in fresh liquid hundos either?
Kukabuksilaks
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GreyKnightTemplar666
If you're only spending a few at a time and not out flashing huge rolls of bills every minute.
Dakksys
The coin and precious metals stores buy and sell in cash and don't even ask your name.
GrandAdmlStrife
What denomination are the bills? Because that makes all the difference.
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GravyEducation
Dude. Check the full wad. It could be hundreds around ones. Unless you trust the arrangement and don't need to count
jjw9
The picture shows $100 bills. All U.S. paper currency weighs 1 gram per bill.
So, 500 kg bills would be 500,000 x $100, or 50 million U.S. dollars.
One kilo gold is $135,000 on the current trading market. 500 kg x $135,000 = 67.5 million U.S. dollars.
r0b0tc0rpse
It actually doesn't make a difference since 500 kg of gold is worth more than 500 kg of 100 dollar bills, unless you're talking about unusual/discontinued denominations or rare currency.
VaxxedCanadian
ITS THE SAME WEIGHT
GrandAdmlStrife
A $1 BILL WEIGHS THE SAME AS A $100 BILL
CallMeCourierSix
Assuming $100 denomination (which weigh approximately 1g each), 1kg would be $100,000.
Current spot price on gold is a little over $136,000 per kg, so gold is the far better option.
The US Federal Reserve no longer prints paper currency with a face value above $100, so if you want 500kg of, say, $500 bills, you're gonna have a hard time finding them.
cosonfused
Here's the neat part: that's not your problem. it's the problem for whomever is giving you the money or gold. If they can source 500KG gold, they can source 500KG worth of "insert value here" bills.
CallMeCourierSix
No. They can't.
You can EASILY buy 500kg if gold if you have the wealth.
You cannot easily acquire anything beyond $100 denominations. $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 bills are no longer printed, and were never printed in large quantities. In fact, there are only about 350 $10k bills left in circulation. That's $3.5mil. 500kg of gold is $68mil.
TheLordFoxington
A 100 dollar bill is supposed to weight exactly 1 gram. Gold is currently valued at ~135 dollars per gram.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Yep. $500 bills are still legal tender and weigh the same as other USD bills (ca. 1 gram)
backrideup9
So are $10,000 bills, but they are so rare and out of print that they and the $500 bill cannot be considered. $100 is the largest viable option, otherwise they may as well be asking if we want the gold or 500kg of $100 gazillion bills.
metrognome11
Pictures is hundreds, but the question reads as if they are singles.
SuperSickRobot
A 1kg stack of $100 bills is worth about $100,000 while a kg of gold would be worth about $140
squelcheswetly
Found this on Reddit. I was curious:
$100 bill weights 0.035274oz
An oz of gold is around $2150
22 $100 bills weighs 0.776028oz
$100 bills are worth more than their weight in gold.
Beezebubbles
Gold is reportedly 4290 USD on https://goldprice.org/spot-gold.html at this time.
squelcheswetly
Oh well there goes that. 🙂
astronomypictures
dollar, duh, it says it right in the post!
EroticZombiePants
They are all new $250 bills with Trump's face on it.
Rangar
Monopoly money is more widely accepted over that.
KAPTKipper
I'd take the bills, so I can burn them
EroticZombiePants
They will make good fuel when they become worthless. Worked great for Pablo Escobar: https://www.businessinsider.com/pablo-escobar-burned-2-million-2015-9
backrideup9
Not even a little bit. 500kg of gold is roughly $67m in today's money according to Google. American paper bills weigh 1 gram (also Google). 1000 bills to a kg will be 500,000 total. In $100s, that's $50m. I refuse to acknowledge the possibility of a $250 bill.
CallMeCourierSix
There exists the following denominations (no longer in print, but still legal currency) in the US: $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000
There also exists $100,000 bills, but they are no longer legal tender.
nicelyvillainous
Technically, those were never legal tender to begin with, it was never legal for the public to possess them, they were used for transfers between federal reserve banks only, so possession would be de facto evidence of theft of government property.
But yeah, $10k bills are still legal to use. So $5B vs $67M.
CallMeCourierSix
Problem is, there are only about 350 $10k notes left in circulation. That's $3.5mil. The other denominations have a bit more in circulation, but not enough to matter.
EndocrineResearcher
The liquidity of $50 million in cash has some advantages over the relative illiquidity of gold. But there's no contest between $500k and tens of millions of dollars worth of gold.
TheRealFireFrenzy
in those kinds of quanities cash is bordering on a negative asset, its so much hassle to deal with that its actively worth less then its listed value just because its annoying... Getting gold into an account might actually be easier then undocumented cash...
TheRealFireFrenzy
Assuming the bullion is stamped by a bank and not just "materialized from the ether" in which case dealing with "where did this gold come from" is maybe actually be more hassle then the cash...
PwnageHobo
Give it another few months of Trump and the US dollar will have basically no value, regardless of denomination
HandoB4Javert
$250 for a Starbucks
sadurdaynight
He thinks devaluing the dollar dilutes the us debt. All he's doing is driving folks away from the dollar as a reserve currency. And he wants to default in the debt anyways
TheWombatStrikesAgain
You say that now. But when the next pandemic comes and people start hoarding toilet paper again, ...
Goodbyeforrealthistime
Ah so that's why they switched to bottlecaps in fallout cash was more useful as tp... It all makes sense now, after all these years you have finally solved one of fallouts latest plot problems...
GrandAdmlStrife
So 1 kg of gold is currently about $135,000.
bourbonandbaddecisions
1kg of $100’s is $100,000
GreyKnightTemplar666
Curious on how many bills would weigh 1kg
JustDumbCommentsAndCorrections
US dollar bills (of any denomination) weigh approximately 1 gram, so assuming $100 bills, 1kg would be ~$100,000.
BrengKapiteinKoekTerug
That is crazy handy to buy drugs. What a life hack.
nicelyvillainous
It’s funny, because during the 80’s Pablo Escobar was making so much money so fast that the gang accountants literally were weighing the bags of money on scales instead of counting them. They were spending $2,500 every month just on rubber bands to make the bands of cash with.
GreyKnightTemplar666
Looked it up. A freshly minted usd bill is 1 gram. $100 is the highest in public circulation denomination. 1000 $100 bills is $100,000 so 1kg of bills is only roughly $35000 less than 1kg of gold
obesz
So we choose for the gold, as the bills are subject to inflation, and gold tends to rise in value.
NayaTaylor
Tends to is a bit of an understatement
thedewser
And considering the bills are just a promissory note originally (prior to 1971) based off the value of the gold in Fort Knox, just take the gold.
somnif
Much easier to actually use the bills though, most banks and stores don't accept bullion these days.