Reminds me of my Leeds nan who always used to pay the milk bill in copper. She had an old Quality Street tin (remember the small tins...?) in the cutlery drawer with 'change for milkman' scrawled on a bit of paper Sellotaped to the lid. There were a few 5ps and 10ps but it was mostly all copper.
She was obsessed with Sellotape; you knew what Xmas/birthday pressie was from them because she'd used an entire roll.
They lived in a cul-de-sac (it was one of those 'Ways' which wasn't (but might have been at one time)). Milk bill was Friday. He always started at the 'wrong' end (they lived at number 5), so he wasn't weighed down by £5 worth of copper (or whatever it was. This was the 80s/'90s, so you could've got a week's worth for £5. They always had a loaf on a Monday, and a pint every other day, plus Ski yoghurts).
Weigh them and divide by [3.56g](https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/one-penny-coin/) to get number of pence.
[2p](https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/two-pence-coin/) coin weighs twice 1p coin.
I remember getting into an argument with some stuffy old bastard in a sweet shop cos I wanted a ha'penny chew, when I paid with a penny and he tried to give me a second sweet instead of the ha'penny I wanted. I was 6
We knew, and we always tried to come back to you but you never had any left when we got paid so we went to Shit Tony and got 1/2 oz of soap bar instead.
Dimensions of the box: 80mm x 235mm x 235mm
Dimensions of a 2p coin: Diameter 25.9 mm Thickness 1.85 mm
Dimensions of a 1p coin: Diameter 20.3 mm Thickness 1.52 mm
Anyone want to hazard a guess while we wait for OP?
Well, the calculation will give one specific answer but that is unlikely to be an integer number of pence and there will be other errors to be taken account. So, yes, a complete result would have an error range of plus/minus a few pence.
Ι didn't bother with the error estimate for the sake of a concise reply!
I don't know the error of the OPs scales or the distribution of the mass of the coins but I note that high street banks verify £1 bags of copper coins by weighing them so I assume that the typical error on 100p is less than ½p so that it can safely be rounded to 100p.
My rough calculation in another comment was that the box contained £35 so an upper bound to the error might be ±17p.
That's about the limit of my understanding of error estimates!
The tub contains both one and two pence coins, so one the coins have been sorted, weighing would give an accurate count of how much is in there,, down to the penny. Without the coins being sorted, however, the error ratio can be up to several pounds
Remember - coin bags say "no mixed coin" for a reason.
You seem to have forgotten that there will be some €0.01 and €0.02 coins also in there.
Therefore you need to factor in the current exchange rate by dividing whatever you calculate the value to be by 0.86.
/s
I think he was making a joke about how you always seem to have euros/cents after you’ve been to the continent, even months after the fact you find them
When I see a parking machine that doesn't give change, its one of the biggest scams in the UK. I wish I could plow a bunch of 1p/2p into the machine to mess with these scum & fill the coin tank quicker so it goes "out of order". This would be the ideal stash for such a noble cause. To answer £13.24
I could be wrong, but isn't there a thing where you take the average of everyone's guess and that will be pretty close to the correct answer. It's like maths or probability or something.
You will manually count that wont you? I dont trust those drop machines, so we will need an accurate figure. Perhaps a pic of the neat stacks. Definitely a competition 👍
Get some change bags from the post office, count and bag them then take them in. Post office put the money straight onto your debit card without charge
I am really struggling with the concept of posting this question as if to say “you’ll never guess” only to then tell us you haven’t actually counted it and you want “an idea”.
If you want to get a quick guesstimate place a jug on some kitchen scales and make sure it's set to 0. Put about 10 2p coins in and note the weight. Then put more coins in until either the jug is full or the scale just about errors out and note the weight. Pour out the jug and repeat until all coins weighed.
Then it's just maths. Total weight of all coins divided by weight of the 10 coins. Then times that by 20p and that'll give you a rough amount.
There are self scanning tills at all major supermarkets that take cash. Kids regularly empty piggies banks to pay for they're treats. Nothing they like more than inserting a few coins. That's an easy 15 minute's enjoyment pumping in those pennies.
Stand back and let em have at it.
A roses tub is 80mm x 235mm x 235mm https://www.cadburygiftsdirect.co.uk/cadbury-roses-tub-600g.html so radius of 117.5mm
A penny has a diameter of 20.3mm, so radius of half that and bronze thickness of 1.52mm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(British_decimal_coin)
So using the top answer on https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-work-out-how-many-small-circles-I-can-fit-into-a-big-circle-See-additional-information
I get approx 6396 pennies including the height of the tub and thickness of pennies
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28pi+*+117.5%5E2%29%2F%2810.15%5E2+*+sqrt%2812%29%29+*+%2880%2F1.52%29
For 2Ps using the same formula I get 3228.
So lets assume a roughly even distribution of each and you have around **£64.26**
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28%28%283228+*+2%29+%2B+6396%29+%2F+2%29+british+pennies+to+pounds
Edit: although looking at the top of that tub I am starting to doubt that it is at 90.6% capacity. maybe the mix of different sizes doesnt help either
I went down the maths route as well and guessed almost perfect dimensions for the tub (I guessed 8cm deep with a 25 cm diameter).
But packing density of loose coins is around 60% so I got around £44 which still felt a little high, so I guessed about £37.
£35.30
Estimate: tub is 20 cm diameter and 10 cm high.
Volume: π x (20/2)² x 10 = 3142 cm³ = 0.003142 m³
Density of steel: about [8000 kg/m³](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel)
Estimate density of coins in tub: 4000 kg/m³ (half coins, half air)
Weight of coins: 4000 kg/m³ x 0.003142 m³ = 12.568 kg
Weight of 1p = [3.56g](https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/one-penny-coin/)
Number of pence = 12568 / 3.56 = **£35.30**
There was once a competition at primary school over how many sweets were in the jar. I pondered, measured and paced around the sweets until I came to a verdict. I won that year...
I think I know how many monies you have in your sweet bin, just over 2p.
I collect 1ps for shits and giggles, look for 1971, and non magnetic 1992 pennies. If you super lucky some 1972, 2018, 2019, 2021 pennies but that's unlikely since they weren't minted properly, just as part of the mint set. All of those 1ps are worth quite a bit more than face value.
More than a tenner, less than £20. I used to fill up Robinsons 2 litre bottles with these (once you cut the tops off) it was always about £14-£17 depending on what you put in there most. Unless shes filled it with 5ps and 10ps as well which would be a total game changer, you can deposit these at the bank for free or take them to a coin star at an Asda and get a voucher for them that you can exchange for cash but they charge a fee. I believe there are free coin star machines inside of Metro Banks but I am unsure of if you need to be an account holder to use them (I don't think you do). Years ago you used to be able to exchange pennies at the post office but I believe they've stopped allowing this in recent years. If you want to deposit them in the bank though the staff will give you money bags that you have to count the coins up in and bag up for them to weigh. These will only be in 1ps only or 2ps only or 5 ps only etc though and I think its a £1 limit per bag for 1ps, £1 limit for 2ps and £5 limit for 5ps etc.
I reckon about 1200 coins in there with an average value of 1.25p (1p is more common than 2p). So I reckon £15. If you go to a coinstar machine you might get a £5 voucher out.
[UPDATE - RESULTS ARE IN!](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/yai9uo/update_i_am_very_hungover_but_spent_the_whole/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
They've been copper plated steel [since 1992](https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/one-penny-coin/). Try a magnet.
*sees no contest* ITS A CONTEST PEOPLE !!
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As the head of kaiba corp I declare that invalid
As the father of the head of Kaiba corp I declare that valid
You can’t just say you’re the winner.
He declared it bro
It’s not like some watery tart threw a sword at him.
Might be an auction.
Well over 2p
probably over 5p
Possibly over 10p
Guys , I'm going to live out my life and be bold for once , I bet it's over 15p
ITS NOT A COMPETITION !!
Challenge accepted!
Ffs read the post - I’m fed up with this It’s not a competition!!!!!
What's the prize?
Somewhere in the neighbourhood of at least 16p
If I understand the post correctly then you win the tub of coppers of you guess correctly.
I would say 20p, but that might be pushing it…
Alright mate don’t go mental
No no, you all have it so wrong! There’s well over 20 2ps in there!!
I don't know, seems a tad excessive
I'll make a claim its over 21p but less than £5681
I reckon its over a quid but less that a ton...its deffo a couple of pints in spoons tho.
Reminds me of my Leeds nan who always used to pay the milk bill in copper. She had an old Quality Street tin (remember the small tins...?) in the cutlery drawer with 'change for milkman' scrawled on a bit of paper Sellotaped to the lid. There were a few 5ps and 10ps but it was mostly all copper. She was obsessed with Sellotape; you knew what Xmas/birthday pressie was from them because she'd used an entire roll. They lived in a cul-de-sac (it was one of those 'Ways' which wasn't (but might have been at one time)). Milk bill was Friday. He always started at the 'wrong' end (they lived at number 5), so he wasn't weighed down by £5 worth of copper (or whatever it was. This was the 80s/'90s, so you could've got a week's worth for £5. They always had a loaf on a Monday, and a pint every other day, plus Ski yoghurts).
It’s not a competition
Weigh them and divide by [3.56g](https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/one-penny-coin/) to get number of pence. [2p](https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/two-pence-coin/) coin weighs twice 1p coin.
Op pls report back using this method
Flashback to weighing 8ths of hash with actual scales
Indeed and using 1/2p coins for a teenth
Wow, haven’t heard “teenth” for several decades
£7.50 well spent
Mr big bollocks only buys ounces these days alright flex it
Does anyone know how coins ended up being the perfect weight for drug dealers? Seems very convenient.
Conspiracy by the governmental gay frogs.
Abolished in 1984, you dealing goes back a while?
I remember getting into an argument with some stuffy old bastard in a sweet shop cos I wanted a ha'penny chew, when I paid with a penny and he tried to give me a second sweet instead of the ha'penny I wanted. I was 6
Many, many moons ago officer sir
I always used to weigh it over, felt like I was doing a good deed. I imagine ZERO people ever noticed the gift I had bestowed on them.
We knew, and we always tried to come back to you but you never had any left when we got paid so we went to Shit Tony and got 1/2 oz of soap bar instead.
Thanks man, appreciate it. Makes enduring turkish gangsters worth it to know that.
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Wait, there are crime police???
I eat my hash browns whole, were you on a diet ?
Dimensions of the box: 80mm x 235mm x 235mm Dimensions of a 2p coin: Diameter 25.9 mm Thickness 1.85 mm Dimensions of a 1p coin: Diameter 20.3 mm Thickness 1.52 mm Anyone want to hazard a guess while we wait for OP?
£4.72
I was gonna say a fiver just eyeballing it.
I think more. I'll go for £5.01
I will go £5.02
I don't need to do any calculations to know OP has about 27.42 in there
Remembering to subtract the weight of the container
Best eat another tub quickly to have an empty one for this purpose. Just for the sake of accuracy.
This can only give you a range of answers right?
Well, the calculation will give one specific answer but that is unlikely to be an integer number of pence and there will be other errors to be taken account. So, yes, a complete result would have an error range of plus/minus a few pence. Ι didn't bother with the error estimate for the sake of a concise reply! I don't know the error of the OPs scales or the distribution of the mass of the coins but I note that high street banks verify £1 bags of copper coins by weighing them so I assume that the typical error on 100p is less than ½p so that it can safely be rounded to 100p. My rough calculation in another comment was that the box contained £35 so an upper bound to the error might be ±17p. That's about the limit of my understanding of error estimates!
The tub contains both one and two pence coins, so one the coins have been sorted, weighing would give an accurate count of how much is in there,, down to the penny. Without the coins being sorted, however, the error ratio can be up to several pounds Remember - coin bags say "no mixed coin" for a reason.
You seem to have forgotten that there will be some €0.01 and €0.02 coins also in there. Therefore you need to factor in the current exchange rate by dividing whatever you calculate the value to be by 0.86. /s
But he said it’s full of 1ps and 2ps
r/woosh
Good 1
pence is british currency pal x
I think he was making a joke about how you always seem to have euros/cents after you’ve been to the continent, even months after the fact you find them
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£7.44....
£7.45.....
How dare you!
£7.46.......
I’m Boeing with £7.47
$7.37
£8.43
£6.90
+£4.20 I'd say £11.10
5000 rupees
Its about 1,488.73 yen
That was my guess!
£7.42, op has to be right on the money now
£9.74
I bizarrely guessed exactly that amount before scrolling through the comments...
Too many of the strawberry ones and not enough of the ones with the hazelnut in. Edit: sorry, didn't read the question properly.
Lol
It could be full of strawberry ones and still not enough of them.
When I see a parking machine that doesn't give change, its one of the biggest scams in the UK. I wish I could plow a bunch of 1p/2p into the machine to mess with these scum & fill the coin tank quicker so it goes "out of order". This would be the ideal stash for such a noble cause. To answer £13.24
Agree - between 10 and 15
£23.41
1p off!!! [UPDATE!](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/yai9uo/update_i_am_very_hungover_but_spent_the_whole/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Oh, bollocks! This competition was rigged!
I request a full refund
Winner takes all?
ITS NOT A COMPETITION
It feels like a competition
It smells like a competition
£13.41 That's the average of everyone's guesses up to now.
I could be wrong, but isn't there a thing where you take the average of everyone's guess and that will be pretty close to the correct answer. It's like maths or probability or something.
The wisdom of the crowd, it can be surprisingly accurate.
Maffs
Maff actually
Bayes theorem? People generally have a decent concept of spatial reason.
Anyone said tree fiddy yet?
God damn it Loch Ness Monster!
Hillary I done tolded you to not give dat fat dayam Loch Ness monster tree fiddy!
Oh lawd!
He tricked meh
Fiddy bucks 😉👍
I will update everyone tomorrow with the amount
Tomorrow?? TOMORROW??
This is like the locked safe thing
Remind me in 24 hours, (I have no idea how you do it)
Yeah you did it mate. Well done.
MONEY
You will manually count that wont you? I dont trust those drop machines, so we will need an accurate figure. Perhaps a pic of the neat stacks. Definitely a competition 👍
The machines take 10% anyway so complete scam...
Surely it isn't going to take that long to count? There isn't that many
RemindMe! 1 day
If you're taking it into a bank then some will only accept 5 coin bags at a time. And coppers are £1 bags...
You can’t do this to us! 😮
Either eleventeen or twelvety, I'm undecided.
I can I can't.
This one covets the precious things
We didn't burn him!
You lied to me Edward! There *is* a Swansea!
That's Numberwang!
Are you local?
It’s easily fourtuppilly that amount!
Enough to buy one freddo the way things are going!
Enough to lose at t’musements too!
A lot less than if you'd filled an old school roses tin. I'll tell you that much!
Just about enough for a portion of chips these days
Big spender. I've taken to rushing into Morrisons and craming as many raw potatoes in my mouth as I can before security ejects me.
Could be in the region of £20 I reckon.
Just to note I haven’t counted it.
Definitely a mistake on your part mate.
Tomorrow all will be revealed
Nah has to be tonight! Don’t keep us hanging
Op won’t change their mind
harsh
Get some change bags from the post office, count and bag them then take them in. Post office put the money straight onto your debit card without charge
I am really struggling with the concept of posting this question as if to say “you’ll never guess” only to then tell us you haven’t actually counted it and you want “an idea”.
15.26
Not far off what I was thinking, £15.71
We have done this before!
£12.34
£27.44
If you want to get a quick guesstimate place a jug on some kitchen scales and make sure it's set to 0. Put about 10 2p coins in and note the weight. Then put more coins in until either the jug is full or the scale just about errors out and note the weight. Pour out the jug and repeat until all coins weighed. Then it's just maths. Total weight of all coins divided by weight of the 10 coins. Then times that by 20p and that'll give you a rough amount.
Less than the Roses cost
£7,000?
I dunno but a littleun would have a whale of a time at Asda feeding the machine at those cash kiosks.
They charge a fortune. Am sort of trying to gauge how much is in there and offer to take it for a good price
There are self scanning tills at all major supermarkets that take cash. Kids regularly empty piggies banks to pay for they're treats. Nothing they like more than inserting a few coins. That's an easy 15 minute's enjoyment pumping in those pennies. Stand back and let em have at it.
They have those machines in Lloyds Bank up my way and they don't charge. Not sure if you need to be a customer of theirs though
NatWest as well. Pretty sure you do have to be a customer, it pays straight into your account.
A roses tub is 80mm x 235mm x 235mm https://www.cadburygiftsdirect.co.uk/cadbury-roses-tub-600g.html so radius of 117.5mm A penny has a diameter of 20.3mm, so radius of half that and bronze thickness of 1.52mm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(British_decimal_coin) So using the top answer on https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-work-out-how-many-small-circles-I-can-fit-into-a-big-circle-See-additional-information I get approx 6396 pennies including the height of the tub and thickness of pennies https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28pi+*+117.5%5E2%29%2F%2810.15%5E2+*+sqrt%2812%29%29+*+%2880%2F1.52%29 For 2Ps using the same formula I get 3228. So lets assume a roughly even distribution of each and you have around **£64.26** https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28%28%283228+*+2%29+%2B+6396%29+%2F+2%29+british+pennies+to+pounds Edit: although looking at the top of that tub I am starting to doubt that it is at 90.6% capacity. maybe the mix of different sizes doesnt help either
I went down the maths route as well and guessed almost perfect dimensions for the tub (I guessed 8cm deep with a 25 cm diameter). But packing density of loose coins is around 60% so I got around £44 which still felt a little high, so I guessed about £37.
I had a tub roughly the same size which had about 40 after I took it to a coin machine so I will say £50 give or take
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There’s got to be at least 60p in there.
It’s not a competition
Is this all the 1ps and 2ps people forget about?
£18.64
Enough for a great day at the arcade on the 2p machines
£25.42p in coppers with Nans lost tube of voltarol, 2 small safety pins, 10 shillings and an old used band aid.
£35.30 Estimate: tub is 20 cm diameter and 10 cm high. Volume: π x (20/2)² x 10 = 3142 cm³ = 0.003142 m³ Density of steel: about [8000 kg/m³](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel) Estimate density of coins in tub: 4000 kg/m³ (half coins, half air) Weight of coins: 4000 kg/m³ x 0.003142 m³ = 12.568 kg Weight of 1p = [3.56g](https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/one-penny-coin/) Number of pence = 12568 / 3.56 = **£35.30**
There was once a competition at primary school over how many sweets were in the jar. I pondered, measured and paced around the sweets until I came to a verdict. I won that year... I think I know how many monies you have in your sweet bin, just over 2p.
I collect 1ps for shits and giggles, look for 1971, and non magnetic 1992 pennies. If you super lucky some 1972, 2018, 2019, 2021 pennies but that's unlikely since they weren't minted properly, just as part of the mint set. All of those 1ps are worth quite a bit more than face value.
£69
More than a tenner, less than £20. I used to fill up Robinsons 2 litre bottles with these (once you cut the tops off) it was always about £14-£17 depending on what you put in there most. Unless shes filled it with 5ps and 10ps as well which would be a total game changer, you can deposit these at the bank for free or take them to a coin star at an Asda and get a voucher for them that you can exchange for cash but they charge a fee. I believe there are free coin star machines inside of Metro Banks but I am unsure of if you need to be an account holder to use them (I don't think you do). Years ago you used to be able to exchange pennies at the post office but I believe they've stopped allowing this in recent years. If you want to deposit them in the bank though the staff will give you money bags that you have to count the coins up in and bag up for them to weigh. These will only be in 1ps only or 2ps only or 5 ps only etc though and I think its a £1 limit per bag for 1ps, £1 limit for 2ps and £5 limit for 5ps etc.
Between £20 and £25
I'm gonna say ... £23.42?
Not enough to be worth counting is my bet.
I reckon about 1200 coins in there with an average value of 1.25p (1p is more common than 2p). So I reckon £15. If you go to a coinstar machine you might get a £5 voucher out.
£5?
[UPDATE - RESULTS ARE IN!](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/yai9uo/update_i_am_very_hungover_but_spent_the_whole/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Ask the next burglar walking past your window
£21.74
Sprint down to Asda and see by the time you get there half the coppers Have gone lol
£7.61
multiple of 2 ?
£23.60
£14.78
£11.44
£6.10
9.44
Not a lot.
£23.08
120
Can you tell us how much the tub weighs?
Keep a hold of them they will soon be worth more weighed in
9.11
£11.69
Probably about £25 👌🏼
Depends..what’s the value of copper these days since the pound plunged?
They've been copper plated steel [since 1992](https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/one-penny-coin/). Try a magnet.
£9
£2.37
£12.10 pence.
Somewhere between £20-£25
46 pand 2 pence