About $100,000 in dimes stolen from a trailer parked in a Walmart parking lot

[y_p_w]

Apparently they were being shipped from the Philadelphia Mint to Florida, but someone got to them while the trailer was parked at a Walmart in the Philly area. It was apparently carrying about $750,000 worth but the thieves only got a fraction of them and many were strewn over the lot. I heard what was actually stolen would have weighed about 5 tons.

$100K worth of dimes stolen from truck in Philadelphia parking lot

The truck was hauling $750,000 in coins from the U.S. Mint, police said.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[chainblu]

Somebody "dropped dime"

 

[Owen Lucas]

It's going to take a really long time to get rid of the loot because it will be very suspicious trying to buy a car or anything significant with bags of dimes.

 

[y_p_w]

It's going to take a really long time to get rid of the loot because it will be very suspicious trying to buy a car or anything significant with bags of dimes.

Especially all the same year. But maybe they'd be thinking of depositing them in a bank, but I'm pretty sure that banks all over the country will have heard of this.

 

[2strokeNorthstar]

It's going to take a really long time to get rid of the loot because it will be very suspicious trying to buy a car or anything significant with bags of dimes.

Coinstar

 

[y_p_w]

Coinstar

Again - all dimes looking like this:

If someone drops them in a Coinstar machine with hundreds of dollars worth of 2023 Philadelphia mint mark dimes, I wonder if they'll check for fingerprints.

 

[2strokeNorthstar]

Again - all dimes looking like this:

If someone drops them in a Coinstar machine with hundreds of dollars worth of 2023 Philadelphia mint mark dimes, I wonder if they'll check for fingerprints.

It definitely would be hard to move barrels of dimes. I bet they get caught.

 

[oldhp]

"Oh look!!!!" "I've got $100K in dimes I can't get rid of................." "I am stupid." Donate them to the March of Dimes.

 

[RhondaHonda]

A $100k theft doesn’t make the news most of the time. If it was laptops or furniture or bottles of shampoo or a small piece of construction equipment you’d never hear about it. Coin star is how I’d do it, but hardly worth the hassle to avoid detection.

 

[vavavroom]

Coinstar

Until the machine overheats and goes up in flames.

 

[vavavroom]

I always got a folding shovel and a large sack in the trunk.

 

[vavavroom]

You never find the dime you drop. Imagine dropping 100,000 of them.

 

[Carmudgeon]

I remember when a pay phone call cost only required a dime. If it was 1977, these guys would have it made!

 

[M56959]

Going nowhere and had to moderate this topic again.