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Interesting $1 Billion pay off in Nickles!
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I believe that was Proven to be Impossible to come up with 20 Billion Nickels
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hahaha...I LOVE IT!!!
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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.
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I guess it just goes to show that you can prove things wrong just using numismatic know how!
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AGAIN, I HATE TO BE THE BEARER OF BAD NEWS, BUT THAT'S AN URBAN MYTH....
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
& there certainly shouldn't be that many lying around in storage.
If there is, they need to stop minting nickels
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