Mind Boggling Lincoln Cent Total Mintage ….Misinformation!
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55,420,900,000,000,000 …. That’s 55 Quadrillion. Ponder that. Info off the web!
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that's a lot of couches
I think someone forgot to hit the add button after the '37-D.
If placed end to end, how many miles long would they be?
How many times around the Earth?
I know now while there are no pickle jars to be found.
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Another example as to why Hoarding makes no sense.
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I think that number is a bit off. Mintages maxed out at 17 billion in 1982, the total should be closer to 3/4 trillion overall.
Yes, the OP number is overstated by a factor of about 50,000 times or so.
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I have pondered the data in the OP and elucidate further thus:
First - 55,420,900,000,000 cents is 55 separate piles of 1,000 Trillion cents, plus 420 separate piles of 1,000 Billion Cents, plus 900 separate piles of 1,000 Million cents (or 110,841,800,000,000 rolls of 50 cents).
Second - 1 Quadrillion cents is 1,000 Trillion cents (or 20,000,000,000,000 rolls of 50 cents).
Third - 1 Trillion cents is 1,000 Billion cents (or 20,000,000,000 roles of 50 cents)
Fourth - 1 Billion cents is 1,000 Million cents (or 20,000,000 rolls of 50 cents).
Fifth - 1 Million cents is 1,000 Thousand cents (or 20,000 rolls of 50 cents).
Sixth - 1 Thousand cents is 1,000 cents (or 20 rolls of 50 cents).
Is my math correct? If so does the above make cents
(sense)?
The Lincoln cent has been minted for 117 years (1909-2025). Dividing 55,420,900,000,000 cents by 117 years results in an average per year mintage of 473,682,900,000 cents per year being minted.
Is that math correct?
If so, it seems like a total mintage of 55,420,900,000,000 over 117 years is way too high. I do not recall mintage figures for the Lincoln cent during the 1990-1958 time period being even remotely close to an average of 473,682,900,000 per year.
My head hurts after all of the pondering I have been doing since I opened this thread.
Looks like we will soon settle a years old debate about who has been on a coin more - Elizabeth II or Abraham Lincoln
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The OP is way off in his math. The easiest illustration of that is dividing his number by 117, as you did. That yields a number almost 50,000x higher than the largest mintage year.
You do have one mistake. You used 55 trillion not Quadrillion. 55 Quadrillion is 55,000,000,000,000,000
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I don't care what you screenshot. The math is way off and fairly obviously so, as well.
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YES. I totally agree the huge number quoted in the first article is absurd. Please direct all complaints to the website that said it.
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Think about it. To get to 55 Quadrillion, you'd need to mint 550 trillion coins per year for 100 years. There isn't even a year that gets within one 10,000th of that number.
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We will. They will probably be a unwilling to take responsibility for saying it as you are. 😄
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took numbers off wikipedia up to 2022 and tried to exclude proof and obvious mint sets
up to and incl 2022: 550,000,000,000
412,149,697,603.50 6,504,887.90 0.06997512806
inches miles distance to sun
821.5316878
times around earth
How many WalMart parking lots would those pave? 🤔
45,794,410,844.83
pcgs boxes (9" as taken from Wizard Coin Supply)
i get 2,146,613,008.35 sq ft
At the peak of its parking investment, Walmart was building 6 parking spaces per thousand square feet of store. “Now we’re willing to have as low as 4 spaces per thousand,” said Clark. “That means on a big store, we went from 1,200 to 800 spaces.
https://sightline.org/2021/12/16/yes-even-walmart-wants-to-build-smaller-parking-lots
While there is probably not a standard-sized parking
space, many parking lots are designed with parking
spaces that are 10 feet by 18 feet (180 square feet).
https://utia.tennessee.edu/cpa/wp-content/uploads/sites/106/2020/10/CPA-222.pdf
14,907 lots at least
I'm not computing the weight of all the zincolns if they rotted to zinc oxide
and i'll leave the weight calc to someone else, but it's a lot of wire and galvanization
i was bored!
1,473,382,680,617.26 3,248,198,149.51 1,624,099.07
grams pounds avp-tons
estimated 1982 ratio because i didn't readily find metal specific mintage figures
trivia - that's 1.47 teragrams. scare your friends!
What's the melt value of that?
7,916,832,086.52 5,495,329,301.38
melt in dollars face in dollars
this is up to and incl 2022
Nope. In this case lets direct all complaints to the member who reposted it.
On a side note: What is the percentage of all the cents (pennies) minted that are dated 1909-S VDB?
peacockcoins
0.0000881%
up to and incl 2022
I asked Grok, there have been 676 billion Lincoln pennies minted so far.
your one mistake is paying attention to ChatGPT
My dog just asked how many pennies this would be in ‘dog money’……🤪
This man is paying off his speeding ticket with 22,000 pennies.
To find the length of 22,000 pennies laid end to end, you must use the diameter of a single penny. A modern US penny has a diameter of 0.75 inches. Here's the calculation: Find the total length in inches: Multiply the number of pennies by the diameter of one penny.22,000 pennies (\times ) 0.75 inches/penny = 16,500 inches. Convert the total inches to feet: Divide the total inches by 12 (since there are 12 inches in a foot).16,500 inches / 12 inches/foot = 1,375 feet 22,000 pennies laid in a single line, end to end, would be 1,375 feet long......or put simply, a little over a quarter mile.