Interesting $1 Billion pay off in Nickles!

[jamin_03]

Lawsuit Paid In Full: Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion sending 30 trucks full of 5 cent coins |

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A History of Mining on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska - Grab it through Amazon!

[jeff of pa]

I believe that was Proven to be Impossible to come up with 20 Billion Nickels

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

hahaha...I LOVE IT!!!

 

[onfire]

Some more fact-checkiing from Ken Tindell via Twitter: "A nickel weighs 5g. It would take 2,755 18-wheeler trucks (max legal tare 80,000 lbs) to carry the money."4) Consider how much a billion dollars in nickels would weigh: you need 20bn of them, and at 5g each that's 0.005 kg x 20,000,000,000 = 100,000,000 kg = 100,000 tonnes.

 

[jamin_03]

I guess it just goes to show that you can prove things wrong just using numismatic know how!

 

[stefen]

AGAIN, I HATE TO BE THE BEARER OF BAD NEWS, BUT THAT'S AN URBAN MYTH....

 

[jeff of pa]

I'm not even sure 20 Billion Jefferson Nickels have been produced since 1939
& there certainly shouldn't be that many lying around in storage.
If there is, they need to stop minting nickels