2. Which is worth more, a bucket full of half a sovereign gold pieces or half a bucket filled with 1 sovereign

Question

2. Which is worth more, a bucket full of half a sovereign gold pieces or half a bucket filled with 1 sovereign gold piece?

Answer 1

The bucket that is filled with the gold pieces.....is this a trick question? Smiling...the one that is full of the halves.

Answer 2

Ideally, if the exact number (to the coin) could be placed in the a full bucket vs. a half bucket & both stacked flat and side-by-side with very little space between the coins both would be exactly equal in value to each other.

The REAL question to answer the initial question is: Is the bucket filled with just 1 sovereign gold piece and the rest are halfs or is the entire half the bucket filled with all 1 sovereign gold pieces (cuz it was said there was a 1 sovereign gold PIECE, not pieces?)

And yes, the size of the coins matter.

Answer 3

You must know the size of each piece. If the one is smaller than half the size of the other then you can fit more of them into a bucket so therefore the smallest coin wins. The smallest coin as long as it is half the size of the other.
1/2 sovereign - 19.30 mm worth 10 shillings
1 sovereign - 22.05 mm worth 20 shillings

Answer 4

I think the bucket full of half sovereigns would weigh more, and therefore be worth more, because a full bucket would weigh more than half a bucket, if filled with the same metal.

Answer 5

If the bucket is not perfectly cylindrical,I would settle for a bucket full of half sovereigns.

Answer 6

It depends on the size of the gold pieces, I'm not familiar with them. If they're the same size the it's equal. But if one if smaller than the other that's worth more because you can fit more of them in the bucket.

Answer 7

depends on the size of the bucket and tge actual weight of the coins.... BUT, 2 buckets of the same size and weight, one filled with a pound of lead and the other with a pound of feathers will weight EXACTLY THE SAME!!