He did mention it, but we never saw that and therefore can't calculate it. Meanwhile it is possible to calculate the amount of coins in a case like this, which gives us a base estimate
Don’t forget that Harry is also getting the royalties from his ancestor’s products one wonders how money is added to the vault and what happens when it fills up completely.
He doesn't get royalties! His ancestors just sold them outright. Although the part owner of Weasley Wizard Wheezes is technically true though he didn't deliberately plan that. The Weasley's pride insists on paying him back. As for when Sirius left Harry his wealth/property increased the amount.
@@morrigankasa570 , actually if he never got royalties from the products he wouldn’t be as rich as he is and I’ve read multiple times that he was still receiving royalties, but only from his grandfathers Sleekeasy’s hair potion.
@@nisar8009 Where did you read that? In the actual books that is never mentioned. Also he could still be as Rich as he is without Royalties if the actual money from selling the potions outright was large enough and his grandparents worked and earned a lot of money added to inheritance. Also if there was a large merging of wealth with the marriage.
@@morrigankasa570 How do we know Harry's grandfather sold the rights to his products? The way it works it, that a product that is copyrighted gets the royalties via a trust fund. If that was the case, i think it's must likely that the fund of Harry's royalties was managed by Gringots, so if that was the case, Harry has his royalties via the trust managed by Gringots. (The process would be, for each product sold, the trust's albacea would procure the percent that belongs to the product's owner. And such.) I like to think that Harry still gets his royalties, even when he doesn't know. But it's not confirmed that he does. But i am curious to know if in the books is specified that his grandpa sold the rights for his hair products before he died or not. EDIT: Because James lived off of his inheritance. So maybe he made sure the royalties from his dad were still going to his vault in Gringots. Haha. Coz Harry didn't have a way to know that but James did because he probably knew about the family business.
In the films they nicely represented a "fortune" BUT in the books it says mountains of galleons, i always thought there was huge, man sized piles of gold, thus Harry must have been a millionaire even before getting the Black fortune
@@tommoore2012 the Mallory’s? I bet wasn’t as impressive as Harry’s. Good old Lucius was a lobbyist so I guess he had favors, some assets and his political power but I always imagined him cash poor 😂
@@sybearOG Lol. The Malfoy’s actually being poor would be pretty funny. But I do believe they have a vast fortune considering that Lucious was able to just casually get seven Nimbus 2001s for the Slytherin Quidditch team.
@@tommoore2012 7 mediocre brooms aren’t a sign of fortune. In PoA Ron said Harry’s Firebolt costs more than all the Slytherin brooms together. Also, Lucius could have pressure Quality Quidditch Supplies for the brooms. He was sneaky enough. There were many rich kids at Hogwarts but we never heard any of them boasting about it. We never actually learned how much the Malfoy’s have. Lucius spent a lot for Voldemort’s cause, on bribes and such, but really that’s all the info about their wealth.
@@sybearOG Y probabbly, Malfoy is rich i guess due to owning lot of propperty/other assets- So his net worth must be easily in Low Bilions, But As all bilionaires, its just net worth, it does not mean having actul bilions In Vault/bank acc- The Top bilionaires who have over 100+B have like 95%+ net worth tied in stocks/other assets- I doubt they have much cash, Maybe like 50-100M max in their bank acc if even that. I mean you can be multi-milionaire and Be broke with like 20k in your bank account pretty much if you own A house that is worth 2M. But such Person is Rich on paper only. This is why List of richest people is bullshit, Someone who has Bilions in actual cash and not Only stocks is Richer Than someone who has 100B in stocks only, as you cant realy sell all that stocks at once due to laws etc.
also you might need to consider the vault harry saw in philosiphers stone might not have been his entire family's fortune. it might be what he saw was a trust, and he wouldn't have access to the rest of his familiy's fortune until he became of age.
@Patrick Furlong yeah I've seen it mentioned in fan fiction sometimes and just thought it made sense. I never got into fanfiction until recently because of the stigma. I figured I'd mention it because there's probably alot of people who haven't read fanfic and wouldn't have really considered it.
that actualy could make sence, considering how big those vaults are, the one harry opened was smal, though this could be becuse it didnt need to be bigger and it expands if needed to.
I always imagined that the vault that Harry entered was his father's vault. Later on after his seventh year, Harry inherited Fleemont's vault wherein reposed the larger bulk of his fortune, and since it was all pre 1965, would have been real gold and not todays fiat coins.
Yes the value of gold would supercede the face value of the coins. I remember wondering how much money the Cullens from Twighlight possessed and it came out as over 10 billion !
That's not how it works. The value of the gold is either minimal in the wizarding world or a built in part of the coins face value otherwise they wouldn't use gold. In the muggle world the value of the gold is how much money you can get, which is worthless to wizards so any amount you get for it is far less than the face value of the coins.
With the minimum of 50,625 galleons times current APMEX gold per ounce price (2,027.50 dollars per troy ounce), if a galleon is almost pure gold and weighs at least 1 Troy ounce then Harry has a minimum of 102,642,187.50 dollars in gold.
The diamater of the replica I saw is roughly 63.5 mm. The tickness I could not find a replica with this information. The largest gold coin in current product I can find is a 2022 5 oz proof british gold her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II coin. It has a diamater of 50 mm. So the galleons in HP might be around 6 oz gold coins. Gold value alone for 1 coin would equal $12,121.98 USD. The value of the gold in all 50,625 coins at 6 oz a coin would equal $613,675,237.50 as of the time I'm writing this.
@@billymurray1334 and that is just a minimum since it said he had mountains of gold and no telling how much silver and copper added on top of that. His vault could have been huge we just didn't get to see it.
@@Wi-Fi-El the actual weight of a prop has no relation to the story though. The question is are they meant to be solid gold, which the story mostly implies, or just a gold coloured coin with a lower value.
I say the money came from his late uncle that no one likes to speak about. Escobar Potter, he was a big time potion seller that guy, particularly to muggles....
Including silver and coppers, I bet his fortune is more around the 1.2 million as said. Then you add the Black fortune from Sirius was probably 5x or more, so for numbers sake we’ll say Harry worth, along with all Sirius assets made him around a 10 million pound man. As prime real estate in London, plus heirlooms (not stolen my fletcher) big bucks.
@@ArrakisHeir88 I googled it and that is the estimate. Hermione's childhood house just went on the market for 3.1 million dollars or 2.4 million pounds.
@@scottrawicz7613 I mean I believe you, I'm just saying I personally would never pay that kind of money for a house where I can't enjoy the shade of a nice big tree or something
And with all of that gold, I have often wondered why Harry didn't offer to purchase Ron (his BFF) a new wand when Ron's wand was broken. Was it because he knew that the Weasleys were too proud to accept? Or maybe he was worried that they would feel insulted if he offered? In any case, Harry should have at least purchased a spare wand for himself. You know having a backup wand in case of emergencies is always a good idea. One up each sleeve. Or one up the sleeve and one at the waist.
@@finnfasty2347 ok I didn't know that but I kinda suspected it. But he wasn't too proud to help Harry eat all of the goodies on the train in the first movie/book, was he?
I wonder what happened to the Lestrange vault after they were killed off. Who inherits their money? Or does it go to the Ministry? It would probably go to the Malfoys because Narcissa is Belatrix's sister. But would it go to other descendants of the Black family? Sirius was one of the last Blacks so maybe part could go to Harry. The Weasleys also have ties to the Blacks. But then here is Tonks's mother, Andromeda, another of Belatrix's sisters. So maybe it could also go to baby Teddy. I'm basing this theory on the law of the bank and next of kin.
I would say Harry has to be incredibly wealthy, probably set for life. It could be much, much more than we imagine, but it all depends on how the wizarding world works. I mean, if his ancestors INVENTED potions still being used today, the Potter family name probably has passive income from it. But, we can't really know if for example, his ancestors sold the recipes or if Harry is constantly getting income from his ancestors inventions. So a more interesting question might be, how wealthy is Harry Potter.
i feel like £250,000 is far less than there actually is… cuz 2 major potions that are used daily by many wizards and witches would definitely be a multi million pound industry, and you can’t forget lily. her parents would have supplied an inheritance halved with petunia. And considering they lived in the ‘wealthy’ part of their village i assume it would be a fair amount. So i think it would actually be far more than that
Kudos to the calculation this is brilliant. I would appreciate Rowling if she told us exactly how much Harry owns in the beginning of the story, but since she sometimes want it to be our imagination I appreciate the movie for showing us what they imagine. That is a big thing to look about when estimating Harry's wealth- They made it up it so technically Harry could have much more than what we saw.
I'd say that is a solid calculation of what was shown in the movie. However, I have to point out that I'm of the impression of the fact the main view of the gold in the vault was from INSIDE the vault. Which I think likely SEVERELY understates the total value of the Potter vault. Logic says that the main pile of coins would not likely be just right behind the vault door. It would be against the far wall which is BEHIND the camera view. I reckon the view missed the dragon portion of the riches. And then there's the matter of the royalties Harry's ancestors that must still being paid into the family vault. I'm sure there's probably other assets by the Potter family that's accruing value into the fortune. And finally there's the substantial value Harry has inherited from Sirius Black and the relevant portions of the Black fortune that has descended to Harry from Sirius. I wouldn't wanna try quantify exactly how much Harry is worth, but he's certainly never gonna ever be in a position of needing any money in his life. He could get a job and never need worry about how much he's being paid cuz he's earning way more from his vault. If I hadda guess, Harry is likely to be at least a millionaire in US$. Perhaps more. He's set for life.
The only issue is that the total in Pounds or US dollars is not taking into account value of 1 British Pound in 1991. Was higher than todays current value. In 1991 the year Harry went to Gringots the Pound was at its height 1 = $1.97 USD in january & around 1= $1.70 USD around august right before start of school year......in 1991 Harry had the equivalent of around $430k USD. Add in Potter Cottage in Godric's Hollow property value...devalued due to damage and neglect. One would hope that gringots, dumbledore, or the ministry were paying out yearly property tax or the UK government would own it but it is mentioned it sat neglected not that the government took control so assume taxes were paid. In a very damaged neglected state at most it would be in 1991 between $200k to $300k USD & probably could only be sold to muggles who knew nothing as a fixer upper because a wizard might think it curse.
I wholeheartedly disagree. A galleon looks to weigh at least an oz. The current price per oz is $2028. To simplify, if you have 50000 1 oz coins that is 50000 x 2000 or 100 million.
those coins are at LEAST 2 ounces of gold each, probably more like 2.5. meaning each one of those galleons are worth at least $4,000, not 5. unless they are gold plated, which i highly doubt.
After sirius had left him gold.....😵😵 he was already knee deep in pooter family wealth... n blacks were said to b most ancient n one of the richest..... dude hie is a fckinh billionaire😂😂😮
Video idea: Why no wizards used guns? Wouldn't it be easier to shoot multiple lethal rounds a second than a single lethal round (Avada Kedavra) every multiple seconds? Master has given Dobby a Glock!
@fagiolification Hes got a good point though. If some of these dark wizards wanted to truly subjugate muggles they would use their weapons and enchant them. Could you imagine wizards with enchanted rifles and tanks?
I think when the author said "columns" it already made the movie scene a little dwarfed in comparison to my imagination. Do you have any idea what it means to have COLUMNS made of galleons?
IF a galleon is truly made of pure gold, then one must calculate the value of that gold by weight. Unfortunately, we have no idea how much a galleon weighs, but if we assume a galleon contains 1 Troy ounce of gold, then each galleon is worth $2022 in today's market. All a Muggle would have to do, is melt it down into ingots. So, by that standar, Harry was very likely a billionaire...even more so, once Sirius left him the Black fortune and the house. I'm pretty sure he never really had to work a day in his life, which is OK. He endured quite enough before he ever turned 18.
I’ll give Harry an estimated net worth of around 2 million USD or more from the time he first visited the vault! There’s no telling how many piles of gold that’s inside that vault because we only seen a glimpse inside and never saw his vault ever again as he grew older!
I think the error you made in calculation was not accounting for inflation. Assuming that 1 galion is equal to 5 Great British Pounds, remember that Harry was 11 in 1991, so you would have to account for the inflation rate of the UK pound from 1991 to today to get an accurate figure in pounds that could then be converted to dollars using today’s exchange rate.
Dumbledore should have at least sent a monthly stipend to the Dursleys for Harry's upkeep. He was a freaking one year old at the time. From what I can tell, Dumbledore wrote a letter to Petunia and that's it. Sure, he told Mrs Figg to spy on the Dursleys but that's it. Petunia didn't have any contact with from the wizarding world until 10 years later. Vernon and Petunia were deeply scared of magic but the neglect of Harry left no repercussions so the extent of their abuse grew as the years wore on. If some gold kept appearing at their doorstep, it would really help alleviate the financial burden as well as remind the Dursleys that someone was watching.
I think dumbledore should have talked to the Dursleys rather than leave a child on their porch. They had a newborn child at the time making this new responsibility even more difficult.
@@jonmedina259 and what makes you think they would be able to keep Harry being protected by ancient magic through Lily's blood connection to Petunia a secret? What makes you think they'd have even wanted to keep a casualty of a Wizarding war at their house? Them not knowing much and raising Harry out of obligation is about the best case scenario you could imagine
I don't remember if this was headcanon that I heard somewhere or if it was in a book, but I remember something like, Harry didn't want to do that because it would be humiliating for Ron, Harry having riches to casually spend on a gift that Ron wouldn't have dreamed of affording. Again I could be misremembering this as a headcanon from another YT video so take this with a grain of salt.
If you remember during the Quidditch World Cup Harry purchased Omnioculars for Ron and Ron paid Harry back with Lepricorn gold. Later on Ron found out that Lepricorn gold disappears and was upset that Harry had given him a Christmas gift. If Harry had gone around purchasing things for Ron, they wouldn’t have been friends for very long. Harry knew Ron and knew better than to purchase things for him. It would have upset Ron.
Seems a little low for gold coins, though it's certainly more money than most of us have regardless. It should be remembered that the 1st Harry Potter book takes place in 1991, and currency values change overtime, usually due to inflation and price fluctuations. Thus, the $310,724 estimate for 1991 would get you about $686,300 worth of goods in April 2023, if the calculations I used are accurate enough.
Were spells/magics in their essence just force of will with intent with words and wands acting like focusers and or magnifiers? What about magics found in creatures throughout the Harry Potter universe or innate magic abilities some appear to be born with such as parseltounges or metamorphmaguses? Are those last two genetics or somehow just a result of a background magical radiation of sorts?
I neither agree nor disagree with the calculations I only point out some errors 1. We don’t know the purity of the gold and silver 2. We don’t know the weight of each coin
Coins of that size would be 5$ in like 1850s or something. In 1991 money, those coins would be worth many thousand each. Theory I have, is that wizards are only poor in wizarding money, as they could very easily obtain muggle stuff like food etc through magic. I mean Weaslies never complaining about having to buy food or such basics, only when they are shopping for wizarding stuff.
Using what I could find since Harry Potter takes place in the 90s and his first year was 91 a single pound was 1.77 usd(I could have found the wrong numbers so I’m not saying this is correct) so in USD it’s more around 448,031.25
The final question is: why didn't Harry buy new muggle clothes instead of wearing Dudleys old ones after PS? If muggles can change pounds to Wizard currency at Gringotts it should be possible the other way round?
I think you have to be an adult to be allowed to exchange your galleons for pounds. Also since he's a minor, maybe he was only permitted to take a certain amount out each time.
@@barbiquearea Yes to the first point. But the amount allowed was his personal choice to be reasonably responsible. There was no regulations that prevented him taking all his money out and using it how he chose. Remember when he ran away from the Dursleys in 3rd year he even considered taking all his money out of Gringotts and hiding out to avoid being punished for inflating Aunt Marge. Then later he even was tempted to spend as much Gold necessary for a Firebolt but chose not to.
Harry didn't have a true understanding of how much wealth he actually had. Didn't really have a chance to take care of shopping for proper clothes for himself until he was 13. Even then I believe he would have been fearful of the Dursleys trying to take any muggle money he had as well.
I heavily disagree. Rowling seemingly had no idea how much the value of pure gold, and gold bullion coins were. As a fundamental rule, a bullion coin has to always have less melt value than its face value in circulation. (Otherwise they cause massive loss for the emitter bank, and people melt them and sold them as bullion metal for more) As we only know Rowling's probably miscalculated eychange rate, it would be more useful to estimate the amount of gold in the vault, instead of the Galleon face value of the coins. The smallest bullion coin I know, is the Mexican 1 Peso bullion coin from the 1870's. A 1 Peso coin is made of 21-carat gold, weighing 1.692 grams, its diameter is 14 millimetres. The daily gold price on 31 July 1991 was £6,92, so a Peso coin's melt value was then £13.38. But that prop coins in the films were significantly bigger, approx. 30 mm in diameter, and 2 mm in thickness. This weights 27.29 grams, its melt value would have been then £173.11, considering 22-carat purity.
Assuming Sept. 2, 1991, the conversion rate would be 1 GBP = 1.6845 USD. So, at the time, we're looking at 50625 x 1.6845 x 5 = $426389.06. Assuming inflation to May 2024 (for fun), that'd be the equivalent of $977,789.63 today. Not quite a millionaire but close enough.
wow JK really hated the men of the Potter family ey? James was a thug and a bully. And the last name of their OG was Stinch combe. As in money grubbing, smelly hoarder. Then we get Harry who was pretty useless, as we are often reminded that Hermione is the brightest and bestest witch of her generation. Where as Harry has "no magical apptitude, his arrogance rivals that of James. Arrogant. Lazy. Useless!"
A simple Google check on how much a galleon weighs and the lowest I've seen is 1.9 grams. This is just from quora mind you, that says it's from a reputable HP source, so f it, let's go with the lowest for a lowball! 1.9 grams of gold would be worth $122.73 USD, so a Galleon would be worth $122.73. Now the video says Harry has at least 50,625 galleons. That would be at least a minimum of $6,213,206.25 USD. And that is ONLY the galleons, not counting his other coins. Factor in money that he would earn on his own and the inheritance from Sirius, as Sirius was one of the richest wizards in the Wizarding World, this would make Harry STUPID rich. Either way you slice it, Harry is a multimillionaire.
Another great video even if I disagree with parts of it. I don't recommend quoting anything JKR says about numbers without first reading up on all the numeric mistakes she has made throughout the series. I suspect she might have a mathematics learning disability. The movies and the books have a lot of inconsistencies and I think the amount of money shown is one of them. Harry comes from a rich family yet the amount shown in his vault is only 50,625 galleons. Was a person in the UK back in 1991 considered to be rich if they had a net asset of £253,125? The books say Harry had a small mountain of coins, Harry's pile wouldn't even make a small hill. Mountains of money: Dragon hoards (Smaug), Scrooge McDuck's bank vault, Something else to take into consideration: HP's vault contained nothing but galleons, in comparison Bella's vault was filled with far more than just gold. If that was HP's only vault, where are the Potter family treasures? The jewelry, antiques, heirlooms, and other miscellaneous things any ancient family like the Potters would have collected over the decades. While on the missing item spiel, I find it hard to believe nobody wrote to him the entire time he was growing up in Durskaban. No letters, cards, notes, gifts, money, marriage contracts, cursed items, nothing.
There is a fly in your ointment. In the early 1950s the US Dollar was pegged to the price of gold, ergo the price of gold was $32.00 per ounce, and the private ownership of gold was prohibited outside of jewelry. In the 1960s that tie was broken, and the price of golds was allowed to float. also private ownership of coins ad bullion was permitted. If you cannot yet see the problem let me elucidate you. If the gold in your galleon was worth $32.00, I could buy that galleon, take it to America and get in those days about $360. It would not have taken the goblins long to see that people were gaming the system and the only way out of that was to take the gold out of the galleon: Give it a base metal blank with a gold coloring to it. Let us assume for the sake of argument that this occurred in 1965: Early galleons were real gold and galleons after that date was fiat money. [Indeed the same thing still happens today, that is why the US government had to take the copper out of the penny and replace the blanks with a base metal.] So the value of Harry's holdings must consider the pre fiat galleons from the gold galleons. This is why many wizards placed gold bullion and other precious metals in their vaults. Check on the web for the price of gold and silver, platinum and even odd metals such as Rhodium. You cannot protect your nest egg with fiat money.
I don't remember where but everytime I read or listen to a particular chapter, can't remember the book either, i can't help to think how unknowingly, Joan Rowling predicted her own wealth. She wrote the books and it was later, i think in book 3 or 4, that she became a millionaire (later billionaire). Also I think about her when in the scene Harry buys all the food in the trolly and shares it with Ron. That line always warms my heart, it says that "Harry never had anything to share with anybody and how it made him happy to share all that food with Ron". She also shared a lot of her money to charity. I think these books have so much humanity in them. Specially book 1.
I think folks are making an assumption that when JK Rowling said a galleon was worth about 5 pounds, she might not have meant in modern terms. It seems like everything in that world is based around the 1600s, so it would make sense that one galleon would buy a lot. Otherwise they'd need to carry huge bags of coins to buy expensive items, or there would be denominations like 100 galleon coins, etc. So think of what 5 pounds would have been worth in 1640 and relate it to today, and I think that's more realistic. $300k is not much of a family fortune considering how well off the family was. At one point Hagrid also says something like "what, you didn't think your parents would leave you with nothing, do you?" which implies some sort of life insurance as well. kind of a modern concept but his mother didn't come from this world. But then again this was a kid's book and we are probably overthinking it...
Think 1.26 million would make more since. $300k may sound like allot for a child, but it's far from setting someone up for life, and honestly, probably allot more than the 1.26 million.
Great video but I'd say he has more in that vault alone. I know its just a guess but good tho. I wished that they made a exact amount on how much was on that bought on special feature on HP1. I guess they never did because it wasn't brought up. Besides he was just 11. I'm sure his parent's didn't allow him all access to his money by that age. Maybe when he reaches 18. Beside that's generational wealth im sure its way more. To add that its a magical world that they can use magic on objects to do their own work so it's possible that they don't have to pay for workers.
It's a shame that they didn't have giant sized coin dispenser like I remember from the past that bus drivers and traveling merchants used to carry when making change like I remember back during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. And have see threw windows to be able to count the coins. Thus have one for the gallons another for the sickles and another for the knuts. And then have some kind of signs tied unto the dispenser to show how much money is in each. And then the into account books keeping track of money coming in and going out. And the source and expense each time. Thinking back I only remember one Fanfiction where the Goblins have set up something as I mentioned in at least the Potter vault(s). They could have something l7ke that set up in all the vaults for proper management. And based in the films we have only seen the inside of a few vaults. Such as the Lestrange vault, and the Vaulr that held the philosopher's stone. And The Weasley Vault.
He gave Fred and George 1000 galleons like it was nothing. Also he inherited everything the black family owned when sirius died.. One of the richest wizard families.
Assuming The galleons are of actual gold , there are gallons of galleons there, and one liter of gold Is 18kilo. One kilo is over 50 000 dollars. Assume just 14 carats in a circulated currency and one kilo will still be over 25000 dollars, one liter over 400 000 dollars. Puting Potter in easily milions of dollars in coin
I wonder if the wizarding world has something like copyright ownership and royalties? Because maybe he's inherited the rights to those potion recipes etc and would keep earning from them.
I would have thought harry would be extremely rich, considering he inherited the last line of the blacks family's wealth, from what we know, the ancient and most noble house of black were very rich.
So in other words he is not very wealthy at all. He's average at best? Well thats disappointing. And here is looked liked 1 oz gold coins that would have been worth at least 72 million USD if that were.
There is no way that a galleon is only worth £5 if a wand costs 7 galleons. Olivander is a world renowned wand maker, no way he’s making a living off £35 a wand when new students only really need them in August.
I feel like galleons should be worth more than five pounds considering how much gold they're made of per each. I'm interested to see if they talk about weight of gold or the conversion tables we're given.
I definitely don’t agree. There is no way that Harry could have easily afforded to loan Fred and George enough to open their store if he only had $250k. His net worth had to be well over a million.
This is only for 11 year old harry lowest estimate. Not including descriptions that each year he visits gringotts, the piles are bigger, then adding inheritance from Sirius including gold and real estate, by the time of the last visit in the books of his vault, he would be a millionaire, also adding inflation
The author may have given them a value of about 5 pounds, but an actual gold coin the size/weight of a galleon looks like it would probably be worth a few grand
but you forget the size of the vault what lies behind the pile we can see? if you use the only reference we have to vault size the size of Lastrange's vault is the only vault we see in full ... and if Harry's was that size the calculations are way off ...
I wonder whether the 1 galleon to 5 pounds conversion rate is some naivity on part of Rowling (I think the quote is quite old?). It could also be a subsidized exchange rate offered by Gringotts to muggle parents of muggle-born wizards. This is all assuming that the gold status of a galleon is not a trick or a cheap coating but that a galleon is indeed genuinely gold, or at least from a large part.
The galleons would be made of a mixture of metals. As pure gold (24ct) would be too soft to use on its own. So I would say that they are mostly gold, like 18ct.
But they're minted by the Goblins who somehow figured out how to turn Silver of all things into a viable material for making swords. The coins are obviously enchanted to be a tad more durable, and probably to prevent counterfeiting. In a world of magic such practical concerns aren't really going to limit you if you are good enough at magic/crafting. My head cannon is pure gold coins, seems like something they'd do.
