$1,000,000 or 1,001,000 pennies

The first one is a check for a million dollars. It goes straight into your bank account and you can do anything you want with it.
The second is 1,001,000 all in pennies. You can't exchange them anywhere (e.g. cannot dump them into a bank account); you must use them up as pennies.

Which would you take?

EDIT: Wow, did I fuck up the topic title. It's supposed to be $1,001,000 in pennies, meaning 100,100,000 pennies.

Obviously the first one.

either $1,000,000 or 100,000... duh i dunno maybe the million?!?!?!?!

I would build a gun that shot pennies.

And then take the first one and pull 100,000 out to change into pennies.

And then go shoot people. Much fun will be had for all. FOR ALL.

Seconded.

No shit the first one.

Supposing we were to revise the question to be a choice between $1,000,000 or, say, 100,000,000 pennies (equivalent amounts of money) I'd have to go with the check for a million since pennies are pretty much useless en masse(save for pissing people off).

However, say we up the game and and offer a choice between $1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 pennies (10 times the value in cash, but now you're stuck with a school bus size stack of the things). By the rules of the game, the only real restriction is that we can't exchange them for more sane types of currency. There is no restriction, however, on converting them from their current form to their component metals! Melted down, most pennies currently contain 97.5% zinc. At the current going rate of around 82 cents per pound, the school bus size stack yields 6 million pounds of zinc or just shy of $5 million worth of metal. Another $500,000 for the copper and you've got a grand total of $5.5 million.

Granted, that's half of what it was initially worth and you've probably expended a colossal amount of time and money to do this, but I think you'd still come out ahead of both the million dollars straight or finding a way to spend a billion pennies.

I'd take the first. I hate too much small change.

neither.
i have too much money as is and having trouble getting rid of them.

Please send some. Currently hungry.

One Million Dollars?
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My job is forfeit.

thirded

Hmmm. I've heard one similar to this one. Either $1,000,000 or $0.01 doubled every day (Exponentially) for 30 days.

But I guess this is a different version? So I'll hav eto go with the first choice.

I'll take the million, no wait, no nevermind. I'll still take the million.

That would only make $10737418.24. But still more than $1000000.

I'll take the pennies and make me some "penny mail" out of it and take nightclock's idea and go shoot up some people with a penny gun and steal the $1,000,000 and run away to mexico before the police get me.

Hell, I'd take the I'd take the bus-sized amount of pennies just to have them... it would be awsome.
-For the actual question I see no reason to get pennies since you can't really do anything significant with them...

I'd get the million to buy the pennies.

Same D;

I'd probably take the first one, it would be easier to deal with, but the idea of shooting people with a penny gun sounds awesome.