COIN WEIGHTS

All US currency bills weigh about one gram, as long as there is no extra moisture. This means it takes about 454 notes to make a pound in weight US Coinage *Penny Standard weight 2.5 grams [half the weight of a nickel] Nickel Standard weight 5.0 grams Dime Standard weight 2.268 grams Quarter Standard weight 5.670 grams [ http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/circulatingCoins/index.cfm?action=CircQuarterDollar ] *Depending on when the penny was produced. United States pennies made before 1982 weigh about 3.1 grams. Pennies made since that time weigh about 2.5 grams. The weight difference is because of the materials used. Before 1982 pennies were 95 percent copper. Pennies made since 1982 are 97 percent zinc. One nickel weighs exactly as much as two dimes but less than a quarter. . . If you cut a quarter into 10 equal pieces, each piece would weigh 0.57 grams. If you had 75 of those pieces, the total weight would be the same as the weight of 19 dimes. This information is accurate to two decimal places, but is only the average of the three nickels First the weight of a penny. A penny (if you weigh 32 of them) can range in weight from 2.42 Grams to 3.18 grams the difference in the range is from .00 to .76 . If your scale weighs a penny and its within these acceptable ranges I would say the scale is accurate. if its out of that range A nickel can weigh from between 4.9 and 5.1 grams (some say 4.8 to 4.85 but not in my tests) they were between 4.9 and 5.1)(depends on wear, ). *************** Weighing money is simple... Dimes, quarters and half dollars are $20/lb, and nickels are only $5/lb, and there are 181 pennies/lb ($1.81) Currency is 6.2"x 2.6" x 0.0043" thick (233/inch) and it takes 375 bills to weigh a lb. Therefore, a briefcase 18.5"x 12.5"x 3" thick will hold $980,000 in $100 bills (two rows of seven [14 stacks] x 3" [700 bills/stack] = $980,000. And it will weigh 26.1 lbs (375 bills/lb). Regarding COINS, the PENNY only weighs 2.5 grams ($1.82/lb) and NICKELS weigh 5.0 grams each... and as mentioned earlier, DIMES, QUARTERS, 1/2 DOLLARS and Eisenhower DOLLARS are all worth $20.00/lb -NICKELS, on the other hand, weighing 1.0 gram/cent (5 grams total, each) -- since there are 453.6 grams per lb, a pound of NICKELS is only $4.54/lb... For the accurate weight of any coin, and other nifty facts about money just go to the website for the U.S. Mint at this website address: http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/index.cfm?action%3Dcoin_specifications For more info, see the U.S. Mint website: http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/mint_history/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=coin_composition