Middle Earth was supposed to be huge, massive, so I wonder if spread evenly that would be so. And I wonder, comparatively, how that hoard would look compared to 10 year's output of any Dwarf gold mine.

Maybe gold was already cheap. Maybe a gold coin was as silver to you and I.

I think I'll have Claude do a deep dive and research into this report, then release a paper on it.

(This goes under the theory of 'the more capacity you have, the more capacity is used' concept, and so, within a few years, we'll have 100 page reports on musings like this, instead of a two or three line post)