Harry Potter Currency Calculator

For once, we can say this is not science but magic: our Harry Potter currency calculator will teach you how to count the coins in your purse during your visits to the world behind the platform 9¾. If you ever wondered how many sickles are in a galleon, or how many knuts are in a sickle, you are in the right place!

Here you will discover:

• What is the currency in the Harry Potter world;
• How to convert the Harry Potter currency;
• Some examples, just to make things crystal clear.

If you're more interested rather in science than magic, check our NNT calculator to learn more about the number needed to treat measure.

The universe of Harry Potter is filled with a certain nostalgic aura: from old-fashioned steam-powered trains to castles, old inns, and pompous-sounding surnames: the harry potter currency is no exception. Instead of using pounds, dollars, or euros, wizards and witches use different currency systems, all without names. We only know the names of the individual coins.

The currency in the wizarding counterpart of the British islands is divided into three coins:

• The galleon, made of gold;
• The sickle, a silver coin; and
• The knut, made of bronze.

Other nations have different money in the Harry Potter world: however, the author of the saga didn't specify their values. We will focus only on the British ones.

To calculate the Harry Potter currency that you may read in a book, see in a movie, or have in your pocket 😉, follow these simple rules:

• In one galleon you can find $17$ sickles;
• In one sickle there are $29$ knuts.

Knowing how many knuts are in a sickle, we can complete these conversions with the last one:

• In one galleon there are $493$ knuts.

As you can see from the conversions above, passing from any of the wizarding currencies to another can be a pretty boring mathematical exercise, far from our habitual divide by one hundred (so common in real-world currencies).

This is when magic comes in handy. If there's no magic, a calculator can help! Simply insert the value of any of the coins we discovered and learn the values in the other two. You can also input decimal values (even though splitting a galleon may not be a good idea!).

Why isn't there a "Harry Potter currency to pounds calculator"? Because the exchange rate has never been specified: we only know that a galleon roughly corresponds to $5$ pounds sterling.

If you are looking for some more useful tools, head to our day of the week calculator which finds what day of the week it is based on the specified date.

A butterbeer at the Hog's Head Inn costs two sickles (pretty low in, our opinion). With a gallon, being it $17$ sickles, you can buy more than eight butterbeers!

A unicorn horn goes for $21$ galleons: it may not sound much! Input this value in our Harry Potter currency converter, and you'll see that it is $357$ sickles or $10,353$ knuts. Let's go even bigger: do you remember the scene in the first movie when Harry discovers his vault at Gringotts? A reddit user estimated that the wealth of the young wizard was in excess of $50,000$ galleons. Considering that one of the highest values seen in the universe is a reward for the capture of Sirius Black at $10,000$ galleons, we can safely assume that Harry is economically stable, at least for a while.

Not only wizards need to pass their exams in the Hogwart. If you need assistance with estimating the test grade, our exam calculator is a perfect tool for that purpose.