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Wait, I wrote "one dollar bills"? Sorry, ten tons is in hundred dollar bills.
In one dollar bills it's a thousand tons, which has the same problem as the coins. Harder to visualize. I could update it, but at this point the correction is more interesting anyway.
It's telling that nobody immediately noticed. Brains are squishy and don't like counting too high. Or too small. The giveaway here should have been "wait, a coin is 875 times heavier than a bank note?"
And yet, not even I noticed, and I looked it up in the first place. Dumb squishy brains
Squishy indeed. Big numbers are hard.