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Canada
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 Just for fun I filled a bushel bucket by volume and filled it with 1954 to 1996 Canadian copper pennies. Lets see who can guess the closest actual weight of a bushel of pennies!! I will post the scale reading tomorrow. I was kinda surprised myself of the actual weight. Heres a clue. Wheat - 60 lbs per bushel Oats - 34 lbs per bushel Barley - 48 lbs per bushel Peaches - 50 lbs per bushel
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Rest in Peace
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I'll estimate 20k coppers would be 135lbs...US, I don't do metric!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Well, I tried using the math for this but, there are too many variables. It depends on how many of them are older and newer because of the weight change and all the dead space between coins. I'll guess around 80,000 coins and a weight of about 500 lbs. I would be more conservative except for the (probably flawed) math I did.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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A bushel (by volume) of pennies should weigh around 485 pounds.
spruett001 should be pretty close to the mark also.
A change in the individual coin weight won't make a big difference to the total weight of the coins in the bucket.
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Canada
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I would say about 130 pounds.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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A change in the individual coin weight won't make a big difference to the total weight of the coins in the bucket. From what I found, that date range could be 3.24g, 2.8g or 2.5g with all being 98% copper and the same diameter. There could be a big shift lower if the vast majority are of the 2.5g variety (1982-1996). I used an average weight ignoring the two years of the 2.8g variety and rounded down. Wow, this is so dorky. I'm proud to be a part of it. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I'd say about 650 lbs, since water is 62.4 lbs a cubic ft.
Edited by okiecoiner
11/01/2017 03:16 am
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I'm going to guesstimate 58,500 pennies give or take 200. And 401.097 pounds give or take a 1/2 pound  Edited by Tootallious
11/01/2017 03:50 am
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 United States
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This should have been a contest  John1  |
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United States
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 a fun proposition. 355.87 pounds. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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my guesstimate is 475 lbs..
..and hopefully the nearest guess gets that pot of pennies..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Canada
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My best guess is 478 pounds.
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United States
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United States
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130 LBS? John1 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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488.25 pounds no math just a guess.
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Posted 11/01/2017 01:43 am
