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How much does a $50 bag of Zincs Weight?

For bank return purposes.

If its 100% zinc it weighs 28lbs.

highroller4321 wrote:If its 100% zinc it weighs 28lbs.

Now can I slip pass TSA with a bag of pennies?

Now I know why my arm aches today. I lugged a $50.20 bag from the parking lot to my dump bank inside the mall.

slickeast wrote:http://www.parkpennies.com/penny/penny.htm

thanks for the info, per parkpennies.com, 181 per pound or 27.62 pounds for $50.


Is 28 pounds closer to real world due to the diminished weight of circulated zincs?

camtender wrote:

slickeast wrote:http://www.parkpennies.com/penny/penny.htm

thanks for the info, per parkpennies.com, 181 per pound or 27.62 pounds for $50.


Is 28 pounds closer to real world due to the diminished weight of circulated zincs?

Yes 27.8lbs -28.2 is the average.

cesariojpn wrote:

highroller4321 wrote:If its 100% zinc it weighs 28lbs.

Now can I slip pass TSA with a bag of pennies?

By slip by do you mean will they allow it, or do you mean will they search you. I have brought boxes and bags of coins on airplanes many times. I can tell you, you will be searched. If it is a carry on, they see it and search your luggage. I would recommend if you want to avoid a search, take it out of the suitcase and put it in the bin with your shoes, etc. You will get plenty of weird looks, but no bag search. Expect a possible explosives test also. If it is in your checked bag, it will be searched. I have never been able to 'slip' a large amount of coin by the TSA.

chris6084 wrote:

cesariojpn wrote:

highroller4321 wrote:If its 100% zinc it weighs 28lbs.

Now can I slip pass TSA with a bag of pennies?

By slip by do you mean will they allow it, or do you mean will they search you. I have brought boxes and bags of coins on airplanes many times. I can tell you, you will be searched. If it is a carry on, they see it and search your luggage. I would recommend if you want to avoid a search, take it out of the suitcase and put it in the bin with your shoes, etc. You will get plenty of weird looks, but no bag search. Expect a possible explosives test also. If it is in your checked bag, it will be searched. I have never been able to 'slip' a large amount of coin by the TSA.

Thinking of taking a few bags of Zinc with me on an upcoming business trip and dump them there so that they don't haunt me where I live and "poison the well." Airline's Frequent Flyer program allows me to bring aboard 2 bags/nearly 100 lbs of stuff free of charge, so.....

Ugh. The last thing I would want to do at the airport would be dragging around heavy suitcases full of dumps. As long as you're not flying to Texas, I say go for it!

PMLurker wrote:As long as you're not flying to Texas, I say go for it!

Um, yeah, about that.....

Not that heavy... I haul 4 of them in for lunch money all the time.

HoardCopperByTheTon wrote:Not that heavy... I haul 4 of them in for lunch money all the time.

What, you have lobster lunches? For that much coin.....

I was just wondering what the answer to this question was.

The true answer is a $50 bag of circulated zincs in a standard plastic coin shipment be weighs 27.1 pounds.

1/2 lb loss for 5000 circ coins?

I compute 2.5g * 5000 (plus a little for the bag) / 454 == 27.533lb (plus bag weight)

I would think 27.1 lb would be pretty short on count, unless there were a lot of metal detector find pennies which were 20% dissolved. I have been weighing circ zincs (I have a counter on the way, but not here yet), and am only a couple pennies off, computing 5000g being $20.00 (my scale maxes at 6kg). At 5kg, I find I am 2 to 6 over (so it is $20.02 to $20.06). So, taking the worst of that, would be about 15 cents long, for a 12500g batch. 15c weighs no where near .4 lb, and that does not take into account the weight of that somewhat heavy plastic handled bag.

HCBTT, I know you have processed TONS of coppers and have lots of experience doing it. I just wonder how accurate your scale is, in this case. I normally do not count my zincs, I just put them into some containers and take them to one of a handful of local banks with customer count machines, and dump them in.

Jim.

It weighs as much as only one of Adam Young's... wait I'm in the wrong thread, sorry.

I could be misremembering the weight on the bag of zincs. It has been a while since I did a zinc bag. It could be 28.1 pounds. I remember that the rolled box of zinc weighs 14.1 pounds with box and paper (the normal way I send zinc back) I will have to do up a couple of bags and weigh them. The scale is very accurate.. to within 2 hundredths of a pound. It is one of those counting scales used by folks that process a lot of coins. You can put a pile of any other denomination on it and it will give you the weight and exact number of coins and face value of the pile.