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At last, someone has answered the question on all of our minds:\u00a0exactly how much money do you need to have to be able to swim around in your own personal ocean of gold coins, just like Scrooge McDuck?<\/a>\u00a0Based on the assumed height of Scrooge as being roughly equivalent to that of an actual duck (I would quibble with this interpretation, but whatever) and a little calculus, Matt Powers of The Billfold estimates that you\u2019d need $31.2 to be able to dive around in your mountain of gold like a porpoise (naturally you would need significantly less to be able to toss your coins up and let them hit you on the head; in fact, with $20 worth of Sacajawea dollars you could do this right now, which you totally should, and post a video of it to YouTube*).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My dad loves Carl Barks\u2019 comics, and they were a huge part of my childhood. That image of swimming around in money always stuck with me. I won\u2019t deny that there have been times when I\u2019ve been about to deposit a paycheck in my bank account and I\u2019ve thought to myself \u201cI could totally convert this into dollar coins or quarters or something and put them in a big pile on the living room floor and roll around in it and not one single person could possibly stop me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Then I remember that money has germs on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But freshly minted gold coins don\u2019t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At last, someone has answered the question on all of our minds:\u00a0exactly how much money do you need to have to be able to swim around in your own personal ocean of gold coins, just like Scrooge McDuck?…
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