Not sure just how close to a gram a buck or a tenspot is, pretty close, can you have an amount of money, paper or coins included that adds up to exactly one pound, 16 oz, (within 1/10 gram)?

According to http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/index.cfm?action=Coin_specifications, each individual quarter is 5.67g. One pound is roughly 453.59g. Eighty quarters ($20.00) would weigh 453.60g. Which is only 0.01g difference.

A friend of mine just did his own calculation, trying to figure out how much the money lost in the recent Ponzi scheme would weigh, and how difficult it would be to hide it:

(1) $1 million in $100 bills weighs about 20 lbs.
(2) Therefore, $50 million in $100 bills weighs about 1 million lbs, or about 500 tons.
(3) 1 large car, a 4x4 crew cab Ford F-150, weighs about 3.5 tons.
(4) Therefore $50 million in $100 bills weighs about as much as 143 Ford F-150's (the small/medium sized municipal parking lot nearby has space for 37 cars).

Originally posted by PBE6
A friend of mine just did his own calculation, trying to figure out how much the money lost in the recent Ponzi scheme would weigh, and how difficult it would be to hide it:

(1) $1 million in $100 bills weighs about 20 lbs.
(2) Therefore, $50 million in $100 bills weighs about 1 million lbs, or about 500 tons.
(3) 1 large car, a 4x4 crew cab Ford F-150, we ...[text shortened]... s 143 Ford F-150's (the small/medium sized municipal parking lot nearby has space for 37 cars).

Originally posted by Morl
According to http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/index.cfm?action=Coin_specifications, each individual quarter is 5.67g. One pound is roughly 453.59g. Eighty quarters ($20.00) would weigh 453.60g. Which is only 0.01g difference.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Nice! So a quarter is 1/80th of a pound.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Quarters were once made of silver, and the British pound means a pound of silver...so you could in principle convert quarters to British currency right?