Those are probably $100 bills. So you only need to fill a bag with 100 bundles. Easily fits in a duffle bag I'd assume.

In the movies, it's $100 bills, which are considerably more portable than $1 bills.

Would you roughly say 100x more portable?

Using somat's estimate of 49" on a side, it would roughly weigh the same as 49^3/100 cu in of solid wood. Given a range of 0.01-0.03 lb/cu-in for pine, and choosing the midpoint: 23.5 lb.

Very portable.

(Yes, it's cotton not wood, but the weight of solid cotton is hard to find, and probably not much different.)

Cross-check: bills are apparently ~1g apiece. That predicts $1M in $100-bills is 20.8 lb. Very close.

sorry I missed that.

Yeah, that many pennies would be really heavy.

Similarly, I always love it when small women smuggle suitcases full of gold in movies, when it would be heavy enough to break the handle off if it weren’t painted styrofoam.

Compress the cube by 100x and you could probably carry it

Those aren't stacks of one dollar bills though.

if it's in $100 bills you can fit it in a suit case easily with lots of space left

well, using larger denominations helps.

I think you could tell if the bill was purple (Swiss franc [1]) instead of green in the movies...

[1] https://www.snb.ch/.imaging/flex/jcr:778b68b3-1344-4872-93d7...

the cube is full of $1 bills