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Pillar of the Community
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I'll bet they were all 1964. 1964-D  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Shouldn't this be in the numismatic crime section?....
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Pillar of the Community
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About 200 lbs?
18,000 dollars X 20 nickels per dollar = 360,000 nickels
360,000 nickels at 5 grams each = 1,800,000 grams
1,800,000 grams divided by 28.35 grams per ounce = 63,492.063 ounces
63,492.063 ounces divided by 16 ounces per pound = 3,968.25 pounds
How did the thief or thieves get 183 boxes out of the house without anyone noticing what they were doing?
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Pillar of the Community
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I'll bet they were all 1964. If so, that wouldn't even make a dent in the amount of those things that we come across in rolls!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Two tons of nickels...
That, my friends, is dedication. :-)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's chump change compared to Quarters Boyle. 16 million Tollway quarters is about 80 tons. http://capitolfax.com/wp-mobile.php?p=811&more=1Daley promoted him to greater scandals. That's good old fashioned Illinois politics. I'm glad I don't live there any more. I hated paying my taxes for all the shenanigans. "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Pillar of the Community
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Easier than breaking into parking meters  I remember a post here way way back about a roll hunter who paid his unemployed brother in law 10% of the dump to drop off $600 in cents I thought he was crazy. Then one day I had to dump my couple of weeks worth of cents and nickels I under stood the dilemma. My "3 bag limit" to keep it friendly dump is either $1300 in halves, $240 in nickels, or $100 in cents. Good luck dropping $18K in nickels  |
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1,800 kilograms x 2.21 = 3,965 pounds.
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Pillar of the Community
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1,800 kilograms x 2.21 = 3,965 pounds. The unit of measurement used to determine the actual weight of these nickels is not metric. |
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Pillar of the Community
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the article states the correct weight.
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Shouldn't this be in the numismatic crime section?.... Yes. Moved.  Quote:
the article states the correct weight. Yup... Quote:
About 360,000 nickels were stolen, weighing 3,968 pounds. Quote:
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly estimated the weight of the nickels as 200 pounds. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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And they walked out with these during a house party? What kind of vehicle were they driving they could load up with two tons of coins? How many trips into and out of the house to their vehicle would this have taken and no one noticed?
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Pillar of the Community
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dsfreeworld: Looks like HuffPo fixed the article after I and no doubt several others emailed them....
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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1946-2015 $100.00 of Nickels/1 Bank Box
--weight-- 22.0463
x 180 = 3968.334
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