[Dimman]

Originally Posted by Want.FR-S

So how much gold have you purchased? Many coins or unit?

Gee I wish I am Hideyuki Toyotomi now. Owning tons of gold in senkouko era would be really fun, except no cars.

Don't know who that is but I raise you Emperor Anastasius I of the Byzantine Empire. (from Wikipedia)

In 491, Anastasius I, an aged civil officer of Roman origin, became Emperor, but it was not until 498 that the forces of the new emperor effectively took the measure of Isaurian resistance.[27] Anastasius revealed himself to be an energetic reformer and an able administrator. He perfected Constantine I's coinage system by definitively setting the weight of the copper follis, the coin used in most everyday transactions.[31] He also reformed the tax system and permanently abolished the chrysargyron tax. The State Treasury contained the enormous sum of 320,000 lbs (145,150 kg) of gold when Anastasius died in 518.[

What would 320,000 lbs of gold work out to in today's dollars? (I think the US gov't needs him running their economy...)