5,500 Pounds of Pennies
First, collect 1 million pennies. The Philadelphia Mint makes 8 million of them every shift, so you’d think it would be simple to buy a certain amount of brand-new matching coins. But that’s not how it works. You have to get them in mixed $25 boxes from local banks, a few here and a few there. Then someone has to spend a lot of time tearing open the rolls.