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Kennythetiger

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3 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

I don’t know if they’re marked, but coinstar people would probably notice really fast that their machines were counting an absurdly high number of dimes, and upon inspection, they would see that they’re all freshly minted. Wouldn’t take long to pull video footage

That’s why you give the Coinstar guys a cut. Jesus, guys. 

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RDCanecutter

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Gotta be the Coinstar guys.

Think about it, you start out at Coinstar, you're young and idealistic. Just providing a useful service. Yes, it's pleasant to hear the coins jingle.

Once in a while out pops an Indian head penny, or a silver Mercury dime. Sure, it's yours if you replace them to keep the count correct. Hear those coins jingle jingle.

Then one day some crackhead dumps his dead grandaddy's entire coin collection down the machine so he can buy more crack. ALL YOURS. Jingle mothafuckin JINGLE BOW YOW Maaaaaaaaan.

Days stretch into years. Not gettin a hit anymore over bags of ordinary change. YOU NEED SOME JINGLE AND YOU NEED IT NOW.

And pulling out of the Walmart parking lot, there you see a US MINT trailer. Just sitting there. Just waiting to... jingle.

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19 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

You telling me you found the mass and volume of American money in metric?

[NerdZone]Apparently the weights of silver dimes, quarters, and halves were nice round metric 2.5g, 6.25g, and 12.5g starting back in 1873, before which they were good old odd measurements like 38.4 grains etc.

As far as I can tell, this had something to do with making them similar to a Latin Monetary Union 5 Franc coin equal to a silver dollar, except we dropped silver dollars in 1873*. The silver 5 Franc weighed 25g and was 90%pure, same as our coins.

Except both systems were a gold system which didn't quite match up. Go figure.

Then later we changed our coins from silver to cupronickel, which whacked up the nice round weights. Except for the Nickel, as stated above, was designed to weigh 5 grams, so pioneers could weigh their weed.

*Silver dollars came back in later mostly so miners could cash in their haul for money. These dollars weighed more than ten silver dimes, yet were unpopular, we made three times as many as needed so the majority sat in bags at the Mint for decades, until the 1960s when people basically created a silver dollar collecting industry out of thin air. [/NZ]

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AUS-97HORN

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soooo in a complete SHOCKER to all  (not really)

 

our super-smart thieves got caught because they used the coin star and bank coin cashing machines to roll up a shitload of dimes

lol  dumbasses. 

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The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that prosecutors contend that the theft — which they now say totaled $234,500 in stolen dimes — was part of a spree of robberies from tractor-trailers passing through the region that also netted the thieves frozen crab legs, shrimp, meat, beer and liquor.

Detectives said at the time that surveillance video showed six men, dressed in gray hoodies and armed with bolt cutters, approaching the truck in the middle of the night and breaking into it, then loading the coins into smaller bags and into a waiting truck.

The indictment unsealed Friday alleges that after the theft, thousands of dimes were converted into cash at coin machines in Maryland or through deposits to at least four different suburban Philadelphia banks, the newspaper reported.

Four Philadelphia men — 25-year-old Rakiem Savage, 31-year-old Ronald Byrd, 30-year-old Haneef Palmer and 32-year-old Malik Palmer — face conspiracy, robbery, theft of government money and other charges.

Messages seeking comment on the charges were sent Monday to attorneys for Savage and Malik Palmer; court documents don’t list attorneys for Byrd and Haneef Palmer, and a message could not be left at a number listed for the latter.

 

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10 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

soooo in a complete SHOCKER to all  (not really)

 

our super-smart thieves got caught because they used the coin star and bank coin cashing machines to roll up a shitload of dimes

lol  dumbasses. 

 

That’s so awesomely dumb! Holy shit. I remember some guy a while back that stole a bunch of quarters from several machines and tried to pay his bond with the quarters. That’s next level dumb. 

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I used to fly down to Mexico City on Christmas break while I was at Florida and come back with centavos. They were the same physical dimensions as the United States dime, but worth about a 10th of a penny.

Like any typical college student there were times of zero money, but the coin vending machines delivered Vienna sausage and Dinty Moore stew cans and honey buns in large quantities - that probably cost $.25 in total. 

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1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

I used to fly down to Mexico City on Christmas break while I was at Florida and come back with centavos. They were the same physical dimensions as the United States dime, but worth about a 10th of a penny.

Like any typical college student there were times of zero money, but the coin vending machines delivered Vienna sausage and Dinty Moore stew cans and honey buns in large quantities - that probably cost $.25 in total. 

Don't buy plane ticket.  Have more for actual food.  Profit.  

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5 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Don't buy plane ticket.  Have more for actual food.  Profit.  

I bought zero plane tickets when I was starving student.    My folks would buy a ticket to come home for the holidays, but everything else at college was on my nickel, and I worked at a large variety of shitty jobs while I went to school.

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12 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

I used to fly down to Mexico City on Christmas break while I was at Florida and come back with centavos. They were the same physical dimensions as the United States dime, but worth about a 10th of a penny.

Like any typical college student there were times of zero money, but the coin vending machines delivered Vienna sausage and Dinty Moore stew cans and honey buns in large quantities - that probably cost $.25 in total. 

 

There was a video arcade on Riverside back in the 80s that used special tokens instead of quarters. Those special tokens, which you had to buy at the arcade, were centavos. I used to play video games for hours for basically free after a day trip to Mexico. Probably saved more in video games than I spent in gas driving to Mexico. 

 

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17 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

I used to fly down to Mexico City on Christmas break while I was at Florida and come back with centavos. They were the same physical dimensions as the United States dime, but worth about a 10th of a penny.

Like any typical college student there were times of zero money, but the coin vending machines delivered Vienna sausage and Dinty Moore stew cans and honey buns in large quantities - that probably cost $.25 in total. 

There was a Chinese dude in my grad program who would go back to China on quarter breaks.  He'd find out what books were required for the next quarter, and buy counterfeit copies for like $2 from a friend there.  Then somehow, he'd get multiple suitcases full of these books shipped to Seattle, where we'd buy them for $10 each.  

That was probably more lucrative than your counterfeiting-dimes-to-invest-in-Vienna-sausages plan.

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18 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

I used to fly down to Mexico City on Christmas break while I was at Florida and come back with centavos. They were the same physical dimensions as the United States dime, but worth about a 10th of a penny.

Like any typical college student there were times of zero money, but the coin vending machines delivered Vienna sausage and Dinty Moore stew cans and honey buns in large quantities - that probably cost $.25 in total. 

Once upon a time, some coin or another from the Philippines was worth about a nickel but the same size and weight as a quarter.

I had a substantial discount on parking meters one semester. 

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On 4/14/2023 at 11:24 AM, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Maybe it was Coinstar that pulled the heist.  They could deposit $1,000,000 in dimes and not raise any suspicions.

and increase it 11% if they run it through their machines./aggy

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