COIN WEIGHTS

Weight of coins currently produced as legal tender coins by the United States Mint in 2012:

Cent: 2.500 grams
Nickel: 5.000 grams
Dime: 2.268 grams
Quarter Dollar: 5.670 grams
Half Dollar: 11.340 grams
Presidential Dollar: 8.1 grams
Native American Dollar: 8.1 grams

Mutilated Coins:

United States Coins no longer fit for circulation are classified as "uncurrent" or mutilated. Uncurrent coins are US coins that are worn yet recognizable as to genuineness and denomination, and are machine countable. Uncurrent coins are redeemed by the Federal Reserve Banks, then forwarded to the US Mint for disposition.

Mutilated US coins are coins that are chipped, fused and not machine countable. Mutilated coins are only redeemable through the United States Philadelphia Mint facility.

All uncurrent or mutilated US coins received by the Mint are melted and recycled for use in the manufacture of coinage strips.