Riker "exchanged" the vouchers to obtain information from Quark on the location of the Duras sisters. Riker became the only customer in Quark's to win triple down Dabo, Quark gave him Vouchers for twelve bars of latinum. ( DS9: " Prophet Motive") Twelve bars When William T. ( DS9: " Rules of Acquisition") Quark offered to sell one hundred gross of self-sealing stem bolts to Emi for ten bars of latinum. ( DS9: " The Magnificent Ferengi") Quark offered Pel ten bars of latinum to help start a new life. ( DS9: " In the Cards") Rom conceded that ten bars of latinum was an overly generous finder's fee. ( DS9: " Q-Less") Elias Giger paid ten bars of gold-pressed latinum for an Andorian chest containing a pre-Surak Vulcan bracelet, a 6th century Bajoran mandala, a 23rd century ion-transtator, and a Willie Mays baseball card from Earth dated 1951. ( DS9: " Q-Less") Ten bars Bidding for the Verathan statue in Quark and Vash's auction started at ten bars. ( VOY: " Inside Man") Seven bars Quark offered to take the Promethean quartz-like lifeform off of Vash for seven bars of gold-pressed latinum rather than to auction it off. According to Gegis, they are worth two billion times their weight in latinum. ( DS9: " Prodigal Daughter") Six bars The going price per unit of Borg nanoprobes. The salary increased to ten, then twenty, and finally thirty bars a week. ( DS9: " In the Pale Moonlight") Morica Bilby received a wage of five bars of latinum a week for services rendered as a shipping consultant. ( DS9: " Favor the Bold") Quark estimated (possibly generously) that a day's business in his bar was about five bars of latinum. ( DS9: " Necessary Evil") Quark said that five bars of latinum would buy him five Nausicaans, a fast ship, and very few questions in order to break Rom out of the Dominion's cells. ( DS9: " Q-Less") Quark accepted five bars of latinum to retrieve a strongbox from Deep Space 9 for Pallra. ( TNG: " Gambit, Part I") Quark wagered Vash five bars of latinum that Benjamin Sisko would win a fight against Q. ( DS9: " In the Cards") Yranac asked for five bars of gold-pressed latinum in exchange for sharing information. ( DS9: " Progress") Nog's life savings in 2373 equaled five bars of gold-pressed latinum. ( DS9: " Progress") Five bars The Noh-Jay Consortium traded seven tessipates of land on Bajor for five bars of gold-pressed latinum. ( DS9: " The Abandoned") Four bars Nog predicted that he could earn four bars of gold-pressed latinum from selling five thousand wrappages of Yamok sauce. ( DS9: " Family Business") Quark paid three bars of gold-pressed latinum for the wreckage of a ship that crashed in the Gamma Quadrant. ( DS9: " The Darkness and the Light") Three bars Ishka made three bars of gold-pressed latinum by investing in a Hupyrian beetle farm. " ( ST: " The Escape Artist") Two bars Jadzia Dax lost two bars in a tongo game and subsequently ask Worf to loan her to pay off Captain Ramirez. ( DS9: " Meridian") In the late 2250s, Tevrin Krit suggested a 100,000 Federation credit-reward may be paid in "one big bar. Apparently, this was quite generous, as Quark suggested that he could " move into a holosuite" with that much latinum. Comparative values One bar Tiron offered Quark one bar of latinum and a precious jeweled ring for a custom holosuite program. ( DS9: " In the Cards") This might contradict the idea that there were twenty strips in a bar, but not necessarily if for some reason it was more costly to produce larger units. Each denomination features a maker’s mark for authenticity.In an auction, Quark suggested that one bar and twenty five strips was lower in value than two bars. One bar of gold-pressed latinum is equal to twenty strips or 2,000 slips of latinum. There were several denominations of gold-pressed latinum, the smallest being the slip, followed by the strip, the bar, and the brick. The gold served only as a carrier for the latinum and was worthless to the Ferengi. In order to be used as tradable currency, liquid latinum was suspended within gold or gold dust to form the end product, gold-pressed latinum. In the science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, latinum was a rare silver coloured liquid of extremely high value prized by many civilizations in the Alpha Quadrant. The reverse of the bar resembles a gold-pressed latinum slip as used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and the design includes the maker’s mark. The bar is struck from 1oz of 99.9% pure silver and is fully gold-plated. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, latinum was a rare silver coloured liquid of extremely high value prized by many civilizations in the Alpha Quadrant, particularly the Ferengi Alliance. Star Trek collectors and enthusiasts will love the latest offering from The Perth Mint, the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Gold-Pressed Latinum Slip Collector’s Edition 2016 1oz Silver Gold-Plated Bar.
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