VL is not 40, it's 45.
V is 5
L is 50
Roman numerals, the smaller number before a larger one means smaller from larger,
so V(5) subtracted from L (50) = 45.
>>981550 To say "you can't eat gold" or the like is something we metals people have been seeing for decades. It is also the most impossibly shallow and ignorant thing a person could say.