Some fun statistics.

According to the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing each bill in circulation weighs 1 gram. 

http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/18/106

Every ounce contains 31.1 grams. 

Every pound contains 12 troy ounces. 

So if you are worth US$1 million dollars and you requested the currency in $1 dollar bills you would have 32,154 ounces or 2679 pounds of physical currency in your possession. 

According to this wheel barrow for sale at Canadian Tire - it can hold 210 pounds. 

http://www.canadiantire.ca/browse/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524443289354&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474396672626&bmUID=1163184183279

This means that US$1 million dollars would weigh approximately 13 wheel barrows if you had to transport it via $1 dollar bills.   The largest currency in circulation in the US is the $100 dollar bill. 

Conversely if you held $1 million dollars in gold you would have 1592 ounces of gold (1,000,000 divided by $628.20) or approximately 133 pounds of gold which would be less than one half of one wheel barrow.

Now the US has M3 currency in circulation of approximately US$11 trillion dollars.  If we use the same $1 dollar bill calculation we would find that we have just over 100 million wheel barrels of US dollar bills – if the entire money supply was $1 dollar bills which obviously it is not.  This is also one wheel barrow of US dollar bills for every 3 men, women and children in the United States. 

Again it would be 1 million wheel barrows of M3 money supply if we use the $100 dollar bill as the bill in the calculation. 

Here is the math.

11,000,000,000,000 (11 trillion)

Divided by 100 (for the $100 dollar bill) = 110,000,000,000 grams.  

Divided by 31.1 to get the number of ounces = 3,536,977,491.96 ounces.

Divided by 12 to get the number of pounds =  294,748,124.3 pounds

Divided by 210 pounds to get the number of wheelbarrows = 1,403,562.50

Multiplied by 100 to get the number of wheelbarrows if we use the $1 bill instead of the $100 dollar bill. 

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