A TON OF MONEY

What is the least amount of value that could be associated with a Ton of Money?

I think the choice would obviously have to be pennies since the weight to value ratio of a penny is highest.

The weight of 32 pennies averaged comes out to 2.87 grams . There are 907,184.7 grams in a Ton.

That means you need 316,092 pennies, or $3,160.92 to have a Ton of Money.

Of course if you were to get $100 bills instead, the math works out to about 98Million Dollars.

Of course, I’m only looking at US currencies. Foreign currencies could get really interesting.

15 thoughts on “A TON OF MONEY

  • 2/15/2006 at 4:26 pm
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    The 1 Euro cent coin is smaller than a US cent but is worth 1.18 US cents. I only have one of them to hand though so I can’t get an accurate weight measurement.

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  • 2/15/2006 at 8:06 pm
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    Why won’t it let me edit this comment to erase my stupidity?

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  • 2/15/2006 at 8:16 pm
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    I don’t know if the comment editing isn’t working or it just won’t refresh properly (if it’s not working then check out how stupid I am for thinking I’d made a mistake when I hadn’t), but a 1 Euro cent coin weighs 2.3g (http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/section/euro0/coins.html – heavier than the US penny dispite being smaller) and thus one ton of them is about $4,684.70, about 50% more than the US pennys.

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  • 2/15/2006 at 8:26 pm
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    Christ, my brain isn’t working today. Yeah! 2.3g is heavier than 2.87g! *slaps self in forehead*
    1 ton of Euro pennies still costs more than 1 ton of US pennies though.
    I’m going to bed now.

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  • 2/15/2006 at 9:35 pm
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    A mexican peso 5 cent piece weights 1.58g, and is the peso exchanges at 10.5382 pesos to 1 us dollar.

    574168 5 cent pieces to a ton, 28,708.40 pesos, or $2,724.21 USD. Not so bad.

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  • 2/16/2006 at 9:06 am
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    Wow Roland.

    Wow.

    I think the Edit thing not working might have something to do with the changes that were made to keep the website fast. I’m not sure though.

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  • 2/16/2006 at 9:07 am
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    nice! I’m glad someone did the math for a foreign currency. I was curious… but lazy. I wonder what Yen would be like.

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  • 2/16/2006 at 10:08 am
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    I’ve been trying to find out what a Ton of Gold Costs. But I have so many different prices of gold to go by. Do I go by the Gold Standard, how much an ounce of Gold costs, from a private purveor, or eBay. if I can get a consensus I’ll figure it out.

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  • 2/16/2006 at 10:53 am
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    Ah yes, of course – I remember you said that visitors only see a cached version that only refreshes so often. That would explain why I didn’t see my first edit but the second one showed up after a few minutes.

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  • 2/16/2006 at 10:59 am
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    A 1 Yen coin weighs 1 g, so handily there are 907,184 in a ton.
    907,184 Yen = $7,689.85
    Mexican Pesos are still in the lead.

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  • 2/16/2006 at 11:38 am
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    The editing option also goes away after a time… 30 minutes i believe?

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  • 2/17/2006 at 10:36 am
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    I vote EBay costs.

    As I thought about this more, I realized we’re basically trying to find the densest currency. I’m going to look into more foreign currencies… this topic clearly needs more research.

    Shaun McQuaid, don’t you have a hefty supply of foreign coins?

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  • 2/17/2006 at 6:29 pm
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    i will try and figure out english pounds and pennies at some point :)

    there are also the 2p’s, 5p’s, 10p’s, 20p’s and 50p’s so take your pick lol ohh and also the £2 coin, man they are heavy

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  • 5/1/2006 at 7:51 am
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    sri lankan rupee might do… 25 cent is the smallest coin and 1 rupee is about one us cent. The 25c coin is over 3g – four of them make 13g to equate to about one US cent.

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  • 5/30/2007 at 2:44 pm
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    This was such a great post. Money tons are interesting.

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