How Heavily Loaded are Your Pockets?

Well, one penny weighs 2.5 grams, so $1 worth of pennies weighs 250 grams or just over 1/2 a pound.  $20 in pennies weighs 5,000 grams or about 11 lbs, and $100 in pennies will weigh about 55 lbs. But to be more accurate, the pennies before 1982 weighed 3.11 grams, so if you have $100 worth of those pennies, then your looking at about 68.5 lbs.  Compare this to $100 in nickels which weighs 22 lbs, $100 in dimes, quarters, or half-dollars which each weigh 5 lbs (hey, I think they planned it that way!), or $100 in dollar-coins which comes in at a trim 810 grams or 1.8 lbs.  Of course, each bill made by the US government only weighs about 1 gram, so you wouldn't even notice if you had a $100 bill in your pocket or not.  Since you won't notice that $100 bill in your pocket, you may as well just give it to me.  😉