Monetary Exchange Rates

A Seon of Gold *
(un-circulated)
From the Book Of Mormon
Courtesy British Museum

Coins From the book of Mormon: Alma 11
The numbers [in brackets] are chapters in Alma

  [3,7]       Senum of silver = 1 senine of gold = 1 measure of barley = 1 measure of every kind of grain

Exchange Rates for GOLD  Coins:
  [7, 8]        Senine = 2 seon = measure-barley = measure-any-grain
  [8, 9]        Seon    = ½ senine = 1/2 shum
  [10]          Limnah = 'all' *
  [19]          Antion= 3 shiblon

Exchange Rates for SILVER  Coins:
  [11]         Amnor = 2 senums
  [12]         Ezrom = 4 senums
  [13]         Onti = 'all' *

Exchange Rates:
   [7]         Senum = senine = measure-barley = measure-any-grain
   [8]         Seon = 2 senine
   [9]         Shum = 2 seons
[16, 17]        Shiblum = 2 leahs = 1/2 shiblon
 

The Numerical Elegance of the Nephite System:  The Mathematics of the Lamanites, As Far As It Is Translated Correctly by A.K. Nutley .   It is pointed out that at one time it was possible to get 1/3 shiblon as change for 1 shiblon and vice versa.

The Inspired text of the Book of Mormon (BOM) has many versions, translated correctly.  See chapter "Nephite Coinage Set Forth" in the chapter  Alma of the BOM in its 1981 edition.  However, the BOM is correct, as far as it is translated correctly.  See en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Mormon_anachronisms:Coins

- Modern analysis shows that Seons of gold are an amalgam of about 66% gold, 32% copper
     and 2% silver, antimony and arsenic (for hardening), with traces of mercury and miracium92.
*  "A Limnah of gold was the value of them all." (stated in Alma Alma [11:4-10], of the Book of Mormon) -- how to make change for a Limnah ?
*  "And an Onti was as great as them all". -- Some Mormon Scholars have communicated to Translated-correctly.com that these Almic references indicate that Limnah s and ontis could be exchanged for any and all coins whatsoever, as well as for a number of day's wages, and for any measure of barley.

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Newly discovered Mormon archeological evidence (external link: The Plates of Laman)   verified the existence of other Lamanite (early Mormon) coinage:
      (1)   A  yoni of gold = 1 day's wages
      (2)   144 Ontis of silver = 200 Olys of iron *
      (3)   A  Senine of gold and Silver = 202 Senines of Silver
      (4)   A  Heh-ku-kau-beam of Iron = a measure of Shiblons

* Archeologists have not yet been able to find the iron and steel mills in the pre-Colombian Americas.  Iron and steel are mentioned in many places in the Book of Mormon. Many of theses smelters have been found in all parts of the world, except in the Americas. Copper, silver and zinc mines and smelters are known to have been present in pre-Colombian America. Brass is a mixture of copper an zinc.

The Code of Hammurabi: What is a Mina of silver?