Hm. What if there is an enchantment on all galleons that prevents them from being melted down? Or better yet, just prevents muggles from seeing them? That would solve a lot of these problems, and still would not violate what Griphook said. I can’t think of anything in cannon or in HPMOR that contradicts this. But I could be forgetting.
I can’t think of anything in MoR that contradicts it, but in canon, when a wizard tries to pay a muggle, the muggle later comments about someone trying to pay with a bizarre kind of coin. IIRC, it’s in Goblet of Fire, and it’s the muggle who runs the campground where they’re having the World Cup. He got memory-charmed afterward.
“You’re not the first one who’s had trouble with money,” said Mr. Roberts, scrutinizing Mr. Weasley closely. “I had two try and pay me with great gold coins the size of hubcaps ten minutes ago.”
Page 77 in my copy of GoF. So, yes, Muggles can see Wizard money, at least in canon.
Hm. What if there is an enchantment on all galleons that prevents them from being melted down? Or better yet, just prevents muggles from seeing them? That would solve a lot of these problems, and still would not violate what Griphook said. I can’t think of anything in cannon or in HPMOR that contradicts this. But I could be forgetting.
I can’t think of anything in MoR that contradicts it, but in canon, when a wizard tries to pay a muggle, the muggle later comments about someone trying to pay with a bizarre kind of coin. IIRC, it’s in Goblet of Fire, and it’s the muggle who runs the campground where they’re having the World Cup. He got memory-charmed afterward.
So he definitely saw some kind of wizard money.
Page 77 in my copy of GoF. So, yes, Muggles can see Wizard money, at least in canon.