What is value of 5 gal. jug filled with coins?

I do agree that the 5 gallon jug filled with dimes would be worth more than a 5 gallon jug filled with quarters (without going into all the nuances and parameters).

 

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FWIW, they said 5 gallons of cents (pennies) is worth less than 5 gallons of quarters. Dimes are smaller then pennies, so obviously, this wouldn't hold. I'm pretty sure the following are true statements:

Val{Vol(brass dollars)} > Val{Vol(dime)} > Val{Vol(quarter)} > Val{Vol(nickels)} > Val{Vol(pennies)}

 

Holy moly!....never expected this thread to have long legs!

 

What is the volume of a dime?

 

it all depends on the mixture of denominations of course ! you can't estimate face value sight unseen....kind of like asking what IHC is worth or a used car or anything else...

 

You could to within a certain degree of accuracy by taking the average change that a person receives per transaction, subtract incidental expenditures of change, then multiply by the approximate number of days it took to fill the jug.

 

0.33-0.34 mL

However, you must consider that we're discussing occupied volume, so a lot of the volume that would be "empty space" for a quarter would turn into "used space" for dimes. Essentially, volume would be occupied space, rather than straight volume displacement.

 

You are correct. That is why on a basic logic level, we can say with a certain degree of accuracy that the jug would be worth more filled with dimes than quarters.

 

This video will put all of the answers to the OPs question in perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxtN0xxzfsw

 

Less than the value of two 3-gallon jugs.

 

I have one going now, it was worth considerably more till my kid removed the quarters! One peice of advice is do NOT take the coins to TD bank and run them through the counter, I was robbed about 30 % of the value. First two times i went , i did not count the change and it seemed low... the last time i went , i counted the coins and the machine was way off! I contacted the nbank manager and was told the coins are collected at least once a day and any overages are given back to the bank to do with as they will... the tellers usually divide it up. They credited me fifty bucks and i promptly closed my account!

 

Yeah, right.

 

I've found for the different denominations these are the approx. equivalents:

$435 dimes
=$425 quarters
=$413 halves
=$108 nickels
=$36 pennies

 

Thanks for all the perspective and continued replies.

 

Do these amounts represent approximate value of the type of coins that will build up during the filling of a 5 gallon jug over time?