Latinum strips, bars and bricks.

[John White]

I have noticed three different units of gold pressed latinum and was
wondering if anyone knows the exchange. In other words does anyone know
how many strips are in a bar and how many bars are in a brick?

John White

[RBobo123]

John White>>

First of all there are no Bricks, they are called Bars. And you forgot about
Slips.
I believe the exchange is as follows.
100 Slips to 1 Strip
100 Strips to 1 Bar

[Cathy & David]

There are "bricks". See "Who Mourns for Morn"

David Gerhard

RBobo123 wrote in message <19981018121037...@ng63.aol.com>...

[Mike Thomson]

Brian Barjenbruch wrote in message ...

>> There are "bricks". See "Who Mourns for Morn"
>

>Bricks are the same as bars. When Quark opens up the treasure chest in
>that episode, there are what are obviously bars in it. Bricks and bars
>are different words for the same thing.
>
> Brian

No
Bricks are different than bars. Bars are much much thinner. and slimmer.
Bricks are just that.. Bricks.

Mike

[Michael Goodwin]

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.981017...@dragon.achilles.net>,

John White <jwh...@achilles.net> wrote:
>I have noticed three different units of gold pressed latinum and was
>wondering if anyone knows the exchange. In other words does anyone know
>how many strips are in a bar and how many bars are in a brick?

In one episode Quark and Rom were talking about a transition that Quark
was going to make... he was to get 500 bars for it, which was the same
as 10,000 strips and 1 million slips. So, this would mean 100 slips to
the strip, and 20 strips to the bar. I don't think they ever said how
many bars to the brick though... the brick must be quite valuable though,
I don't know if it was ever mentioned before "Who Mourns for Morn" or
since, so its probably more than Quark has ever seen at one time. And
250 bricks is enough to live very comfortably (someone miscounted when
they were dividing up Morn's loot of 1000 5 ways, which would have left
Quark with nothing had all those deals actually gone through). By the
way, I wonder what ever happened to the 100 bricks worth that Morn gave
Quark at the end of that episode... that should have been enough for him
to buy his asteroid and retire and leave the station...

[Christopher Michael Jones]

Brian Barjenbruch (bri...@home.com) wrote:
: > There are "bricks". See "Who Mourns for Morn"

: Bricks are the same as bars. When Quark opens up the treasure chest in
: that episode, there are what are obviously bars in it. Bricks and bars
: are different words for the same thing.

I would tend not to agree, since 1000 bricks seems to be a LOT
more than 500 bars. Also, since the actual value of Latinum
bars, slips, etc. is in the quantity of Latinum, there might
be different concentrations in different measurements. In
addition, we have seen Latinum bars several times and they
appear to be much smaller than bricks.

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