mick wrote:
On Fri, 23 May 2008 09:26:30 +0100, Rob Horton wrote:

someone wrote:
Anyone like to hazard a guess how much money there would be in a box
filled with pennies and tuppences? The dimensions are 1 x 1 x 2 feet?

Regards
Suz
What's the ratio between the pennies and tuppences? You could have a box
with, say, 300 tuppences and 1 penny or 400 pennies and one tuppence.
This results in wildly different values. It would be better to have box
filled entirely of pennies or tuppences to stand any chance of figuring
out the value.


Strangely enough, this isn't exactly true. A 2p coin weighs just about
twice as much as a 1p coin. This allows banks to quickly check the value
of a bag of assorted 1p/2p coins. For reference the weights are 3.56g and
7.13g.

Of course, you *may* get more 1p coins into a given volume than 2p coins.


Which is why I suggested weighing it in the first place! Same applies
(or used to) to other "families" of British coinage - e.g. 5p and 10p.

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