2 ~ 5 Gallon Bottles of Pennys

[stefen]

Was checking thru Craigs list (http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/clt/983126998.html) and this person has 2 ~ 5 gallon water bottles filled with pennies and wants $450...

Based on 145+ to 180 coins per pound, wonder how many pounds would be in the bottles...

Any guesses?

 

[gregl01]

Thats alot of pennies.................

 

[Cachefinder]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_would_a_5_gallon_water_jug_full_of_pennies_be_worth


after reading this my quess would 40,000 pennies per jug
so 285 pounds per jug

WOW

Cachefinder-

 

[johnnycat]

Uhhhh...Who pays the shipping

 

[stefen]

The number of pennies vary from about 5600 to 7800 pennys per gallon...

Since each bottle equals 5 gallons, there are about 28000 to 39000 pennys or 175 to 244 lbs...(using an average of 160 pennys per lb)

Now multiply that by 2 and you might have $560 to $780 worth of coppers.

Lets see, Garden Grove is about 12 miles from my home and I need to use my El Camino (12 mpg) to make the pickup and spend $450 minimum...after several visits to the chiropractor and Kaiser for a hernia repair, and a loss of 8% at the coin machine, I'd make about break even...

Not sure that I'd want to spend most of my next lifetime sorting thru the coins looking for a major find...

Can you imagine looking thru 56,000 to 78,000 pennies...

Hey, AA Battery (or whoever you are today), want a job?

 

[R AND R]

buy em' take em to the nearest beach,playground, etc and spread em out! now that would be a hunting nightmare!!! Esp dang zincs!!!! Would be funny in a tot lot..... dam this snow is making me mean!

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

buy em' take em to the nearest beach,playground, etc and spread em out! now that would be a hunting nightmare!!! Esp dang zincs!!!! Would be funny in a tot lot..... dam this snow is making me mean!

dam this snow is making me mean!

 

[boogeyman]

Hey Stefen,

Years and years ago (60s) in Newport Beach, we had a glass sparkletts bottle in the living room. Got it filled up almost to the neck with coins. Figured we'd start rolling em when it got to the top. While dropping a handful of pocket change in the whole bottle let go Needless to say we were picking coins out of broken glass for over a week. Never did that again! Second lesson we learned glass + shag carpet = cut feet no matter how many times you vacume until the carpet is removed. Still shudder if I see a piece of shag

If you get them you might want to drop the bottles into a sturdy bucket for transport, even if they are plastic bottles. Jeeze... makes me cringe just thinking about it

 

[lafatlife]

Well I can tell you that I had one of those almost half filled with all sorts of coins and it came to 67 pounds. I was on a lifting restriction that is why I had it weighed.

 

[BIG61AL]

My parents had a glass water cooler jug filled with pennies [pre zincolns] and the bottom dropped out when we went to roll them up. Friggin pennies everywhere.

 

[aa battery]

The number of pennies vary from about 5600 to 7800 pennys per gallon...

Since each bottle equals 5 gallons, there are about 28000 to 39000 pennys or 175 to 244 lbs...(using an average of 160 pennys per lb)

Now multiply that by 2 and you might have $560 to $780 worth of coppers.

Lets see, Garden Grove is about 12 miles from my home and I need to use my El Camino (12 mpg) to make the pickup and spend $450 minimum...after several visits to the chiropractor and Kaiser for a hernia repair, and a loss of 8% at the coin machine, I'd make about break even...

Not sure that I'd want to spend most of my next lifetime sorting thru the coins looking for a major find...

Can you imagine looking thru 56,000 to 78,000 pennies...

Hey, AA Battery (or whoever you are today), want a job?

 

[boogeyman]

Lets see, Garden Grove is about 12 miles from my home and I need to use my El Camino (12 mpg) to make the pickup and spend $450 minimum...after several visits to the chiropractor and Kaiser for a hernia repair, and a loss of 8% at the coin machine, I'd make about break even...

Can you imagine looking thru 56,000 to 78,000 pennies...

Can't even imagine driving to Garbage Grove to do anything They still have the Little Saigon signs on the freeway?

 

[relichunters]

Well I wasn't paying attention to the money in it, I am thinking about the wheat pennies that might be in it.

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

Now multiply that by 2 and you might have $560 to $780 worth of coppers.

Is that MELT DOWN VALUE amount?

 

[kdismuke1]

PAY YOU TAXES WITH THEM.

 

[mlayers]

There would have to be some wheaties in there. I say go for it. Then take them to the back and run them through the coin counter there.....Matt

 

[aquanut]

I saw a T.V. show on acids the other day. One of the things they did was to soak a penny in an acid (Nitric, Sulfuric ? I can't remember... Anyway it ate the insides out and all that was left was a copper jacket about as thick as a piece of paper. Apparently, they're not even all copper.
Aquanut

 

[boogeyman]

Sometimes you find pennies at the beach that feel squishee. Think it's electrolosys that eats the zinc out of the center. Kinda cool!

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

thats alot of pennies!! :P

 

[stefen]

Lets see, Garden Grove is about 12 miles from my home and I need to use my El Camino (12 mpg) to make the pickup and spend $450 minimum...after several visits to the chiropractor and Kaiser for a hernia repair, and a loss of 8% at the coin machine, I'd make about break even...

Can you imagine looking thru 56,000 to 78,000 pennies...

Can't even imagine driving to Garbage Grove to do anything They still have the Little Saigon signs on the freeway?

Garden Grove and Westminster are two of the cleanest cities in the southland...there are no stray cats or dogs...no crapping pigeons...

In fact, any person with 2 dogs is classified as a rancher