| rdfs:comment | - To make latinum a monetary unit, the liquid is suspended in gold to create "gold-pressed" latinum in the form of slips, strips, bars, and bricks. There is speculation by some that gold is worthless compared to latinum. Latinum has been shown to be less harmful to humanoid life than the element mercury.
- Latinum is a silver liquid that due to its scarcity and the fact it cannot be replicated is used as a form of currency in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. For ease of transactions latinum is encased within gold. The lowest common denomination of latinum used is a slip of latinum. The next highest is a strip of latinum, which is equivalent to a hundred slips. This is followed by a bar, which is equal to twenty strips or two thousand slips. The largest known denomination is a brick. (DS9: "Body Parts")
- Denominations of gold-pressed latinum, in order of increasing value, include the slip, the strip, the bar and the brick. One bar of gold-pressed latinum is equal to twenty strips or 2,000 slips of latinum. (CCG set: Rules of Acquisition, card: "Gold-Pressed Latinum") The exchange rate for bricks is unknown, but Quark implies that bricks are worth considerable more than bars. Latinum apparently does not exist in the Mirror Universe, as the mirror Quark had never heard of it. (DS9 episode: "Crossover")
- Latinum is a rare silver-colored liquid metal that was used as currency by the Ferengi Alliance and many other worlds. For ease of transaction, latinum was usually suspended within "worthless" gold as a binding medium to produce gold-pressed latinum. (DS9: "Who Mourns for Morn?") Latinum apparently did not hold a similar monetary value in the mirror universe, as the Quark of that universe had never heard of it. (DS9: "Crossover") Denominations of gold-pressed latinum, in order of increasing value, included the slip, the strip, the bar, and the brick.
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| abstract | - Latinum is a rare silver-colored liquid metal that was used as currency by the Ferengi Alliance and many other worlds. For ease of transaction, latinum was usually suspended within "worthless" gold as a binding medium to produce gold-pressed latinum. (DS9: "Who Mourns for Morn?") Latinum apparently did not hold a similar monetary value in the mirror universe, as the Quark of that universe had never heard of it. (DS9: "Crossover") It is unlikely that Quark was simply clueless about latinum, as – like his regular universe counterpart – he owned a bar. The mirror Quark complained about the Alliance taxes, though, so the mirror Quark's bar must have used Alliance currency instead of latinum. Denominations of gold-pressed latinum, in order of increasing value, included the slip, the strip, the bar, and the brick.
- To make latinum a monetary unit, the liquid is suspended in gold to create "gold-pressed" latinum in the form of slips, strips, bars, and bricks. There is speculation by some that gold is worthless compared to latinum. Latinum has been shown to be less harmful to humanoid life than the element mercury.
- Latinum is a silver liquid that due to its scarcity and the fact it cannot be replicated is used as a form of currency in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. For ease of transactions latinum is encased within gold. The lowest common denomination of latinum used is a slip of latinum. The next highest is a strip of latinum, which is equivalent to a hundred slips. This is followed by a bar, which is equal to twenty strips or two thousand slips. The largest known denomination is a brick. (DS9: "Body Parts")
- Denominations of gold-pressed latinum, in order of increasing value, include the slip, the strip, the bar and the brick. One bar of gold-pressed latinum is equal to twenty strips or 2,000 slips of latinum. (CCG set: Rules of Acquisition, card: "Gold-Pressed Latinum") The exchange rate for bricks is unknown, but Quark implies that bricks are worth considerable more than bars. Latinum apparently does not exist in the Mirror Universe, as the mirror Quark had never heard of it. (DS9 episode: "Crossover") A latinum slip measures 2½ x ¼ x 1 inches, a strip measures 3½ x ½ x 2½ inches, a bar measures 5 × ½ × 2½ inches and a brick measures 8 x 1 x 4 inches.(Star Trek Auction Listings) Latinum was found naturally in the form of crystals which can be mined. Such crystals typically formed near pockets of nickel, iron, pergium, or cobalt. (DS9 novel: Devil in the Sky) A Federation survey of the Davon system sometime before 2348 found traces of latinum on the moon Davonia. In 2355, the planets and moons of the Maxia Zeta star system were discovered to be richly endowed with many minerals and materials, including latinum. And in 2370 a group of Horta discovered deposits of latinum on Baraddo, Bajor's outermost moon. (DS9 novel: Devil in the Sky; TNG - The Lost Era novel: The Buried Age) A large amount of latinum supposedly exists underground on Ferenginar.(DS9 reference: Legends of the Ferengi) Latinum is usable as a currency specie because it is one of the few materials incapable of being replicated. Gold, which can be replicated, is unusable as a currency specie, and is useful only as a container for liquid latinum, due to gold's non-reactive nature.
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