Quantity and weights of denominations in original US Mint sewn bags!

[Petespockets55]

How many coins in a "US Mint sewn bag" and what do they weigh?
(This topic came up another forum and thought others here might be interested or ..... I might just need to get a life (: .)

Good info at this LINK on US mint issued bags.

Well, let's look at the weights of mint bags (1900 to present):

Cents- (5000 per bag)
..... Copper cents- 5000x3.1g= 15,500g= 33.07 lbs
..... Zinc cents- 5000x2.5g= 12,500g= 27.56 lbs

Nickels- (5000 per bag)
......................... 5000x5g= 25,000g= 55.11 lbs.

Dimes- (5000 per bag)
..... Silver- 5,000x2.5g= 12,500g= 27.56 lbs
..... Clad- 5,000x2.27= 11,350g= 25.02 lbs


Quarters- (4000 per bag)
..... Silver- 4,000x6.25g= 25,000g= 55.12 lbs
..... Clad- 4,000x5.67g= 22,580g= 49.78 lbs


Half's- (2000 per bag)
..... 90% Silver- 2,000x12.5g= 25,000g= 55.12 lbs
..... 40% silver- 2,000x11.5g= 23,000g= 50.71 lbs
..... Clad- 2,000x11.34= 22,680g= 50.00 lbs


Dollars- (25 to 2000 per bag)
..... 90% Silver- 2,000x26.73g= 53,460g= 117.86 lbs
..... Silver Ike- 2,000x24.62g= 49,240g= 108.56 lbs
..... Clad Ike- 2,000x22.68g= 45,360g= 100.00 lbs

..... SBA- (25 & 100 per bag)
--------------- 25x8.1g= 202.5g= .45 lb
------------------- 100x8.1g= 810g= 1.79 lbs

..... Sac.- 2000x8.1g= 16,200 g= 35.71 lbs

..... Pres.- (100& 250)
------------- 100x8.1g= 810g= 1.79 lbs
------------- 250x8.1g= 2,015g= 4.44 lbs

..... Native American- 140,000 (YES! 2,615 lbs incl. steel pallet from US Mint-5/8/18)
--------------------- 140,000x8.1g= 1,134,000g= 2,500.04 lbs

(There might be more?)

Hope someone finds this interesting or at least helpful!
(Guess my daughter was right as a teen, telling me I really needed to get a life. LOL)


EDIT: 2/13/19 Corrected the info for the half dollars. My initial source said they were the same weight.

[GrumpyEd]

It would be neat to have a sticky for general information and nice if we could add weight tolerances. I remember trying to find the tol numbers and I think it was from a university not the mint. (useful when people post under/over weight coins.

Another interesting thing to add would be when the mint shipped in what, I think cent bags might have ended around 2000.

Another question that never gets answered is that some dates the mint bags are full of 100 rolls but other dates are 5000 lose cents and what stuff really came from the mint vs federal reserves. I assume anything in rolls may have been from the federal reserves because the rolls are often stamped by one of the FRBs.

Even the bricks we see are not from the mint, all modern US coins may be in pallets or tubs when the mint ships.

[Petespockets55]

Thanks Ed.
The first LINK in the original post has good info on bags and I came across more info on when different sizes were available at the mint.
The smaller quantities listed were there because of images of US mint sewn bags I found online.

From what I read you are correct about the rolls coming from the Federal Reserve Branches as the mint only shipped in "loose" bulk.

Here is a US Mint LINK with an image at the bottom of the page with container specs for shipping dollar coins in bulk.
A "bulk bag" on a Sturdy steel pallet for 140,000 1$ coins.

[jfines69]

Cool info... The info on weight tolerances I have posted is on the Cornell University School of Law web site https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/t.../subchapter-II and is from Title 31 of the US Code which can be found at the House of Reps site hear http://uscode.house.gov/ I use the Cornell site as it is a little easier to flow thru!!!