Federal authorities have released more details and unsealed charges in the theft of more than 2 million dimes earlier this year from a tractor-trailer that had picked up the coins from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.

  • @jordanlund
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    2 million dimes = $200,000.

    Worth going to prison for $200K?

    4 dudes, so $50K each? 🤔

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      How the fuck are you going to spend 500,000 dimes?

      Brings gallon bucket full of dimes to the local coinstar every fucking week for… shit, a lot of weeks

      • @jordanlund
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        41 year ago

        $50,000 / 52 = $961.54 a week for a year.

        $961.54 * 10 = 9,615.38 dimes per week.

        50 dimes per roll. 192.3076 rolls.

        Each roll weighs 8.8 ounces. 1,692.30688 ounces. 105.77 pounds of dimes a week.

      • @SalamendaciousOP
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        41 year ago

        From the article:

        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.

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        1 year ago

        Well if you’re already committing crimes you might as well melt them down and sell the metal. You’ll probably get more for it.

    • TragicNotCute
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      Reading the article, it doesn’t sound like they realized what they were stealing until after. They were on a spree of tractor trailer robberies and I suspect this was just an easy target.