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

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?


£250

OK what do I win?


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In uk.d-i-y, 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?

Are we allowed to melt or otherwise disfigure them?

If not, my guess is £827.39, approximately.

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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

Best approximation might be had from weighing them.

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On Thu, 22 May 2008 22:02:14 UTC, 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?

Two cubic feet, then! :-)

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"Bob Eager" wrote


Two cubic feet, then! :-)

Perhaps not in a manner of speaking!
Yes 2 cubic feet in volume terms, but if the coins were in a sphere of the
same volume they would certainly stack differently and result in a different
monetary value. The OPs description of the shape as well as volume is
certainly relevant in this case.

Phil

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.

"Rod" wrote in message
...
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

Best approximation might be had from weighing them.

If you can find some scales to weigh over a quarter of a ton.
Which is a rough estimate to what they would weigh.
I hope they are on a solid floor and not a suspended one.

"Rod" wrote in message
...
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

Best approximation might be had from weighing them.

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Rod

Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious
onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
www.thyromind.info www.thyroiduk.org www.altsupportthyroid.org

He can't do that its against the rules. ;-)

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.

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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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Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious
onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
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"TheScullster" wrote in message
...

"Bob Eager" wrote


Two cubic feet, then! :-)

Perhaps not in a manner of speaking!
Yes 2 cubic feet in volume terms, but if the coins were in a sphere of the
same volume they would certainly stack differently and result in a
different monetary value. The OPs description of the shape as well as
volume is certainly relevant in this case.

Phil

And somebody will have thrown in the odd (now old) foreign coin to spoil
this competition.

Adam