Interesting Penny Fact

DesertRat

Current estimates by the U.S. Mint place the number of pennies in circulation at around
140 billion. Others have estimated as many as 200 billion currently circulating. Since the
first penny was minted in 1787, until present-day, over 300 billion pennies have been minted
in the United States. So that leaves about 100 billion pennies that have been retired by the
Mint, lost down sewer drains, stored in jars, smashed by trains, or collected by numismatists
in the past 200 years.


value $2,000,353,186.72 (Two billion, three hundred fifty-three thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-two cents)
width 253.44 feet
height 126.72 feet
thickness 126.72 feet
total weight 625,110.4 tons
height stacked 197,320 Miles
area (laid flat) 17,938 acres

eyoung429

Glad to see someone has some extra time.....

Hoot

I wasn't aware that the U.S. had ever minted any pennies...

Hoot

DesertRat

<< <i>I wasn't aware that the U.S. had ever minted any pennies...

Hoot >>



Smoeone forgot to tell that to the guy who created the website I got it from

Gemini

Hmmm...I wonder if the English ever call their pennies cents?

LeeG

Are we bored?

itsnotjustme

That's on the order of 600 per person in circulation. Given they consider stored in jars out of circulation, I find that very hard to beleive. Maybe if the stored in households as in circulation, I would beleive the figure in circulation.

DominusDeus

The rest of the site that has the cent images like that.

solid

I wonder if they took the size of Large Cents into consideration when
calculating their volume statistics...

anablep

<< <i> I wonder if they took the size of Large Cents into consideration when >>



Prolly not.

coppercoins

The old "cent" versus "penny" debate is beating an already beaten horse even more. As a specialist and student of the Lincoln cent, I still commonly call them "pennies" because that's the colloquial term attached to the coin - our banks use the term, our wrappers have the word on them, and people have been calling them "pennies" for over 100 years on a regular basis. I think it's about time to give up the fight over calling them by their "proper" term and stop wasting time arguing about it.

How about we educate people in something a little more useful - like spelling the name of the five cent coin properly - it's "nickel," not "nickle." That bugs me every time I see it. There's an arguement for which there is no debate, no room for negotiation. "Nickle" is simply wrong.