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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'll bet they were all 1964.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Shouldn't 360,000 nickels weigh a lot more than 200 pounds?
It should be about 4629 pounds.
Edited by EddieDiz
02/26/2015 7:06 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I bet Coinstar loved this story!
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At 5 grams each, $18,000 in nickels is about 3975lbs.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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its 1800 bank boxes, I think each box weighs almost 10 pounds ( north of 7 for sure) I am not sure where they got their facts from, this would be a pallet of boxes, how in the heck would someone hide that on their way out the door?
Don't mind me, I feel a bit bloated from all the drinks I had.....?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oops,I divided by 24.3 instead of 28.3. But still way more than 200 pounds.
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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
United States
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Shouldn't this be in the numismatic crime section?....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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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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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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