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[โ€“] addie@feddit.uk 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If it's a Robin Hood story, then presumably it's full of gold coins rather than dollar bills. Bag's about the size of his head, call it four litres. Gold has a density about 20 kg / litre and is worth about $100 / gram, so ignoring the fact that you'd struggle to lift that bag, especially in one hand, it would be worth about $8M.

Still works out to about 0% of their wealth. Time to start taxing the rich.

[โ€“] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Gold was rarer back then than it is today. It would have been worth a lot more inflation corrected.