How many cents in a 5 gallon bucket?

[toorude89]

Hello,

I am thinking about selling my copper cents and have about two 5 gallon buckets full. Does anyone know approx. how many cents fit in a 5 gallon bucket? Answers I have found online range from $300-500. Can anyone tighten that gap for me? Thanks. HH!!

 

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[Diver_Down]

I have found online range from $300-500. Can anyone tighten that gap for me? Thanks. HH!!

$301 - $499. What do I win?

 

[Produce Guy]

I would think it would be higher say around $500-$700.

 

[GAOldsman]

Weight them. A penny weighs 2. 5 grams which is ~0.006 lbs, so what ever the bucket weights divide it by .006

 

[agme]

Just over 25,000

 

[BuffaloBoy]

100

 

[The_EE]

Weight them. A penny weighs 2. 5 grams which is ~0.006 lbs, so what ever the bucket weights divide it by .006

A zinc penny weighs 2.3-2.6 grams
A copper penny weighs 2.9-3.1 grams

I have had copper ones come in at 2.8 and 3.2 before but its uncommon.

 

[50cent]

Dump the bucket in the coin counting machine and find out.

 

[agme]

No really, just over 25,000 or $250 in my 5 gallion bucket anyway.

 

[mishra142]

Yes it is around $250 and a 50 gallon drum is around a ton.

 

[toorude89]

Great my range has gone from 300-500 to 250-650...

 

[50cent]

Selling them online + time and hassle = cheaper to just dump them in a coin machine, homie.

 

[toorude89]

Well I went to the trouble of sorting them. I put an ad on craigslist. If someone wants to pick them up they can buy them for 1.5-2 per. Otherwise they can sit at my place a while longer.

 

[CladSmoke]

Dump the bucket in the coin counting machine and find out.

Haha

 

[Dark]

I thought the whole point of saving copper pennies was to hold on to them while the price of copper goes up?

 

[silvershooter]

I thought the whole point of saving copper pennies was to hold on to them while the price of copper goes up?

Ditto

 

[G.I.B.]

U.S. dry gallon U.S. fluid gallon British gallon or Imperial gallon? It makes a big difference...

 

[50cent]

I thought the whole point of saving copper pennies was to hold on to them while the price of copper goes up?

Hold onto them until its legal to melt, and sell at current prices.



Copper is not precious, the price goes UP and DOWN. The price WILL, fall below its weight in cent again homies.

 

[toorude89]

If I can sell $400 worth of copper for double, I will do it ASAP.

 

[Gold Maven]

good luck trying to pick up the bucket, the last one i tried the bottom broke out.