Our sources
Every figure on this site comes from one of these pages. Dates are the days we read them.
Pages we opened and read (12 November 2026)
- U.S. Mint: Coin Specifications. Weight, diameter, thickness, composition and edge of the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar and dollar coin. It also states that the one-cent coin is made exclusively for collectible sets.
- U.S. Mint (Kids): Coin Count n’ Roll. Coins in a roll of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Currency FAQs. The weight of a note (about one gram, whatever the denomination) and how many double folds a note survives (about 4,000).
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Circulating Currency. The denominations now printed: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100.
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing FAQ, an older copy archived on 15 October 2004 by the U.S. government web archive (webharvest.gov). The size of a note (2.61 by 6.14 inches), its thickness (.0043 inch), its weight (one gram) and the number of notes in a pound (454). This is an archived copy: the current bep.gov FAQ confirms the weight but does not repeat the thickness.
- uscurrency.gov: history of American currency. The size of Federal Reserve notes, 6.14 by 2.61 inches.
- U.S. Mint: Fort Knox. The standard gold bar, 7 by 3 5/8 by 1 3/4 inches, about 400 troy ounces (27.5 pounds).
- Federal Register, 86 FR 22996 (30 April 2021). Good Delivery gold bars of 350 to 430 fine troy ounces with a fineness of 995, and 1 troy ounce = 31.1034768 grams.
Listed by a search, not yet opened by us
We have not read these pages ourselves. The figures they are said to support are shown on the site only with a note, and will be confirmed or removed.
- U.S. Mint press release, 29 March 2004. Said to show a roll of half dollars worth $10 (20 coins).
- Federal Reserve Board: report on the Presidential $1 Coin Program. Said to describe $25 rolls of dollar coins (25 coins).