# Cash **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 27, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash/6606 "2000-01-27T16:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash/6606/1 "2000-01-27T16:48:00Z")
How much cash (in US denominations) is there in existence? This includes pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, dollar coins, and $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills. * * * Judges 14:9 - So [Samson] scraped the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash/6606/2 "2000-01-27T17:11:00Z")
Dunno, let me check the couch and get back to you. * * * “Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.” - Miguel de Cervantes ---
**Author:** ![frolix8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@frolix8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frolix8)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash/6606/3 "2000-01-27T17:40:00Z")
Here’s a pretty good estimate: [http://www.howstuffworks.com/question237.htm](http://www.howstuffworks.com/question237.htm) ---
**Author:** ![SavageNarce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SavageNarce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SavageNarce)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash/6606/4 "2000-01-27T17:45:00Z")
$10,732,549,167.47 as of… Woops, someone in Arkansas just destroyed a penny on a railroad track, that’s $10,732,549,167.46 🙂 * * * Computers in the future may weigh no more than 15 tons. -Popular Mechanics, 1949 ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash/6606/5 "2000-01-27T17:53:00Z")
Thanx, frolix8. That’s exactly what I wanted to know. 🙂 * * * Judges 14:9 - So [Samson] scraped the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash/6606/6 "2000-01-27T17:55:00Z")
Don’t know that answer–but I do know there are 293 ways of expression $1 in currently minted coinage. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash/6606/7 "2000-01-27T17:56:00Z")
Um, make that “expressing.” ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash/6606/8 "2000-01-28T17:54:00Z")
No one knows for sure. Just a guess but I would say a lot! Mint made like 500B of extra money for Y2K & now they put it in the landfill.