Comments | ornoth: Minty Fresh Trivia

ornoth

Minty Fresh Trivia

Jan 28, 2009 13:36

Today a friend of mine started a contest to guess how much her bucket of coinage was worth. She gave two hints: the bucket weighed 50 pounds, and it was nearly all quarters and dimes.

A little research at the US Mint provided the following interesting surprise. Check out the last column:
US CoinFace ValueWeight (g)Value/Pound Penny$0.012.500$1. ( Read more... )

money, mint, currency, contest, coins

Comments 3

ailsaek January 28 2009, 19:02:57 UTC

I use dollar coins fairly often, actually. I want to see paper dollars discontinued, so I am doing my small bit to help the process.

Followup ornoth February 16 2009, 18:27:15 UTC

I didn't win. In fact, I was $29.13 under, mostly because there were 41 dollar coins in the bucket, which threw my estimates off. Despite my one outlier friend, rational people don't use dollar coins. That's absurd!

Re: Followup ornoth February 16 2009, 18:28:31 UTC

Course I still was within three percent of being correct...