OT Coin Question

John B.

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If you were given a set amount of space such as a container which coin could you fit in to get the most dollar amount?

In high school a teacher asked us that and we all said dimes. But I think now I would say quarters.

What do you think?
 
Are you meaning like a quart jar full of quarters vs. full of dimes, which would be the higher dollar amount?
 
Dime is 17.91mm x 17.91mm x 1.35mm, or 433mm^3.
Quarter is 24.26mm x 24.26mm x 1.75mm, or 1029.96mm^3.

So for a dime it's 43.3mm^3 per cent.
For a quarter it's 41.19mm^3 per cent.

That's assumign they're square, however there's some overlap.

The times will fill more overlap than the quarters because they're smaller. My brain doesn't seem to know how to get any further than that though.
 
I think dimes would amount to more than quarters... though the value is lower, they are quite small/thin - so one could pack a lot more of them into a quart jar with far less air-space than if filling it with quarters...

BUT to be on the safe side, I'd fill said container with dollar coins.
 
I have a jar of these things...not sure what they're for.
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With dimes, quarters and half dollars, they are about the same value per volume because the size of them was based on the amount of silver in them (up till 1965). If you stack them in a container, you will get more dimes in but if you just throw them in a container, you get close to the same.

Pennys are out because they are larger than dime and worth only 10%.

Nickles are out too for the same reason.

Susan Bs or Sacs would have the most dollar value per gallon but they are really uncommon so its not like you are going to get rich with them in your standard change jar.

Anything pre 65 silver is going for 10x face value. You will get 9-12 times face on craigslist, more on ebay usually.
 
(quoted from post at 17:13:35 09/04/15) If you were given a set amount of space such as a container which coin could you fit in to get the most dollar amount?

In high school a teacher asked us that and we all said dimes. But I think now I would say quarters.

What do you think?

Just guessing I would say dimes give you more bang for the jar. I've saved most of the quarters that I get in change. I've been saving for about 15 years and have five 1 gallon cans full. Probably about $8-900 per can. When I started I just wanted a roll of quarters for the year each one of the kids were born. Not sure why I keep doing it...OCD??
 
Matt,

This is just a guess, but it might have some validity. Some of the coins are commemmorative, like the Detroit/Canada Tunnel. Probably distributed when the tunnel was dedicated.

The others, that reference sales tax, are possibly tokens that retail merchants used to give to customers when the customer bought something and had to pay sales tax on it. I grew up in Ohio in the 1950s. All of the merchants were required to give small, paper "stamps" to the customers that equalled the amount of sales tax that the customer paid. There were many, many denominations of sales tax stamps. My parents bought a new car in 1955. The sales tax was a couple of hundred dollars. The car dealer gave them some high denomination tax stamps and some low denomination stamps to equal the amount of sales tax that they paid.

Schools, and other non-profits used to collect the stamps and redeem them from the state for a portion of the face value of the stamps that they had accumulated.

Maybe - maybe - the tokens served the same purpose in their respective states.

Tom in TN
 
(quoted from post at 06:21:29 09/05/15) The size of dimes and quarters has not changed since you were in school John so why would the answer have changed?

I can't say for sure on dimes but quarters are a little thinner. I was rolling quarters awhile back and had the eagle back quarters separated from the state quarters. you could get an extra state quarter in the roll. Compared to the pre 1990 coins the money now looks, to me, like monopoly money.
 
If you realy want to know fill a jar with dimes and one with quarters then see which is heavier. or see which will hold more water = less silver.
 
(quoted from post at 14:29:21 09/04/15) $20.00 gold coins

But can you afford enough of them to fill the jar?

I have some $20 St Gaudens. Just a few mind you. Haven't cecked recently but they are near $1,000 each.

Gene
 

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