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This is a Mint Ballistic Bag

clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
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Not many get to see these up close so I thought I would share. These are the bags that the mint sends out to be rolled.


Guam Quarters - $50K bag
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Sealed
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Quarters opened to look inside
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other side view
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Pennies inside view
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  • InternetJunkyInternetJunky Posts: 2,329 ✭
    Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
  • AskRaqAskRaq Posts: 2,303
    Holy Cow - those are definitely *ballistic* in nature!!! Forklift anyone??
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    A man could do a lot of laundry with quarters like that.
  • halfnuthalfnut Posts: 1,619
    I was thinking more like a great day in Vegas with that bag of Quartersimage

    Thanks for the pic's

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,858 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've had an empty one of these here in my office
    since 2002, and have seen them being filled with
    coins on the floor of the Philadelphia Mint...........

    They look like a numismatic "Jabba the Hutt", when
    filled !
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  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    Just out of curiosity, how much does that weigh?
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  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭


    << <i>Just out of curiosity, how much does that weigh? >>



    I think its like 3400 lbs. For the pennies you have about $4000 face, or 160 $25 boxes
  • sanitarium1inmatesanitarium1inmate Posts: 1,078 ✭✭
    Are those the 2008 memorial cents going out at the same time as the Guam quarters?
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  • shark1970shark1970 Posts: 210


    the pennies equal (160) 50 roll boxes.

    so you would think the quarters would weigh more, but I think the quarter bags have less
    coins in them, but not sure.

    they must weigh at least 2000 pounds or more......
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Was this delivered Today! image

    How'd you do that??? image
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



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  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow...impressive stats!
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,288 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Just out of curiosity, how much does that weigh? >>



    I think its like 3400 lbs. For the pennies you have about $4000 face, or 160 $25 boxes >>



    400,000 cents at 2.5 grams each
    = 1,000,000 grams
    or one metric tonne
    or 1,000 kilos
    or approx. 2,200 English pounds.

    TD
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  • ClosedLoopClosedLoop Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭
    do they send the coins out for mint wrapped rolls, or do they roll them on sight?
    figglehorn
  • MPLunaticMPLunatic Posts: 617 ✭✭
    Are those from your personal collection image
  • coasterfancoasterfan Posts: 1,302 ✭
    Did you count them to make sure they're all there? It looks like you're a few short. image
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  • misterRmisterR Posts: 2,305 ✭✭

    Thanks for the photos.

    One box of quarters, $500, weighs 25 lbs.
    One hundred boxes, $50,000, would weigh approximately 2500 lbs.
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Clackamas,

    Did you make your wife go get a job there or something? Or, are you moonlighting? image

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  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭
    Everyone's expecting this question - did you check them all out for DDR?
    Paul
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for the pix.



    << <i>A man could do a lot of laundry with quarters like that. >>



    Lol.

    The only problem is that it wasn't so very long ago that you could
    do a weeks worth of laundry for just a couple of those quarters.
    Tempus fugit.
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    image

    I can see just how those ballistic bags got their name. Here’s some 16" (40.6 cm) powder bags and projectile during open house aboard USS New Jersey BB-62 in 1968

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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Thanks for the photos.

    One box of quarters, $500, weighs 25 lbs.
    One hundred boxes, $50,000, would weigh approximately 2500 lbs. >>



    Correct but you need to throw in the weight of that metal support stand which is what they use to haul these around with.
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Thanks for the photos.

    One box of quarters, $500, weighs 25 lbs.
    One hundred boxes, $50,000, would weigh approximately 2500 lbs. >>



    Correct but you need to throw in the weight of that metal support stand which is what they use to haul these around with. >>



    Yep, its a big metal pallet with sides. They do lift the bags off of the pallet with a fork lift, you can see the big blue straps that the forks go through, then they open the bags from the bottom and let the coins pour into the bins for rolling. Its pretty cool to watch. This is also where you really start to see the how coins, especially quarters, get so marked up. The top coins in the bags probably average MS65 with many 67's and a handful of 8's.
  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    I would happily search every one of those bags I could get my grubby hands on... image
  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would happily search every one of those bags I could get my grubby hands on... image >>


    wow!
    Paul
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭
    Ya learn somethin' new everyday!

    Thanks for sharing Clackamas!

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    TC
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  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    <<wow! >>


    I know. image


    Imagine all the cool finds waiting to be discovered in them...
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yep, its a big metal pallet with sides. They do lift the bags off of the pallet with a fork lift, you can see the big blue straps that the forks go through, then they open the bags from the bottom and let the coins pour into the bins for rolling. >>



    I cringe at the thought!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,288 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image

    I can see just how those ballistic bags got their name. Here’s some 16" (40.6 cm) powder bags and projectile during open house aboard USS New Jersey BB-62 in 1968

    U.S. Navy Photograph >>



    DEFINITELY a no-smoking area!!!!!!!
    LOL
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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
    did you suggest they open them from the top and feed them in one at a time?


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  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭


    << <i>did you suggest they open them from the top and feed them in one at a time? >>



    I offered to do that but I am too slow, plus I would pocket too many of them and the guys with the guns around me frown upon that.
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So you are skimming these from a bank somewhere in Oregon?
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  • ResRes Posts: 1,086


    << <i>

    I can see just how those ballistic bags got their name. Here’s some 16" (40.6 cm) powder bags and projectile during open house aboard USS New Jersey BB-62 in 1968
    >>



    I thought it was because they were made out of ballistic nylon. I don't know if they are or not.
  • JupitarCoinsJupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭


    << <i>I would happily search every one of those bags I could get my grubby hands on... image >>



    So thats why your called stinkinlincoln, cause your hands stink.

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    I can see just how those ballistic bags got their name. Here’s some 16" (40.6 cm) powder bags and projectile during open house aboard USS New Jersey BB-62 in 1968
    >>



    I thought it was because they were made out of ballistic nylon. I don't know if they are or not. >>



    I have no real idea, I was offering a visual of a ballistic powder charge, very similar to the size and shape of the mint coin sack. Maybe we can get this cleared up once and for all.

    Any takers?
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  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    <<So thats why your called stinkinlincoln, cause your hands stink.>>


    Yes sir. image The g/f says my hands always smell like fish and pennies. Then I scold her for saying pennies. 'Its cents' I say. She doesnt care. Its an endless cycle. image
  • RobbRobb Posts: 2,034 ✭
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  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Thanks for the photos.

    One box of quarters, $500, weighs 25 lbs.
    One hundred boxes, $50,000, would weigh approximately 2500 lbs. >>



    Correct! @ 5.7g ea. 200,000 coins weighs in at 2,300 lbs. +/- a few lbs.

    The standard wooden pallet would break under 3,400 lbs.

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  • nicetoning42107nicetoning42107 Posts: 1,162
    Thank you for posting this, clackamas. Very cool. i'd heard of ballistic bags before but sort of wrote them off as an urban legend.
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