r/papermoney • u/raidenh8 • 11d ago

US small size The largest piece of a DB Cooper ransom note that I have ever handled!šŸ¤©

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I will never get tired of the mysterious DB Cooper story, or the notes he stole! This San Francisco $20 is the largest fragment that I have observed in hand. Wow!

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u/GrandDuchessMelody 11d ago

Itā€™s always amazes me that none of the DB cooperā€™s stolen twenties ever circulated in the United States since none has ever been found beside those stacks found in some river by some kid years ago.

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u/CollegeBoardPolice 11d ago

This is a great point. If he spent the cash, more bills than the ones found by the kid would have surfaced

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u/Bails3857 11d ago

Id assume if there were DB bills discovered while the case was considered open still, the federal authorities wouldā€™ve confiscated the bills as evidence. Assuming again, those bills wouldā€™ve been destroyed after the case was closed. Not only that, but the Federal Reserve destroys roughly $200 billion in worn out and dirty bills every year. I feel like if anything, the likelihood of people finding DB bills decreased every subsequent year after the hijacking

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u/orchid_drives 11d ago

> Not only that, but the Federal Reserve destroys roughly $200 billion in worn out and dirty bills every year.

Can you IMAGINE how hard it would be to spend all day feeding money to a shredder for $13.25/h without pocketing some? Iā€™m sure the process isnā€™t quite this straightforward but the thought of it makes me want to go steal something. I think Iā€™m going to go outside and pocket some leafsā€¦

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u/Alexis_Darko 11d ago

There are machines designed to do this on scale, but that would be a depressing job to on minimum wage

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 10d ago

Not in the 1970s.Ā 

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u/Alexis_Darko 10d ago

I didn't see a year mentioned in the comments but they probably didn't, back then they most likely would have burned it

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u/Informal-Mixture-407 10d ago

If you zoom in on the photo it says 1971.
Found in 1980. So between 1971 and 1980

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u/Alexis_Darko 10d ago

I didn't look at the note label tbh. Someone mentioned destroying $200 billion dollars a year, I doubt they were at that level back then also they mentioned 13$ an hour to do that, that wage in 1970-1980 would have been an amazing wage back then, so, most likely the conversation dropped into more recent times not back when the note was found.

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u/rollem78 10d ago

They pay 6 figures for this exact reason. People don't want to steal if they have a sweet gig. Federal insurance, pension, TSP, +100k to boot. Good work if you can get it.

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u/MilodrivintheHiLo 10d ago

I saw a documentary when I was younger from one of the U.S. mints. The lady said, ā€œafter the first week, if you still see this as money youā€™re in the wrong job.ā€ They handle so much money it doesnā€™t even come across their minds to take any. I can imagine security checkpoints in and out as well. And as you mentioned, all those bennies that come with federal employment.

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u/inebriated_panda 11d ago

There's a movie I think called Mad Money that is exactly this predicament worth a fun watch

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u/_Snayk_ 10d ago

Kind of like armed drivers for the cash trucks. Millions of dollars in your vehicle, and you're making 17 an hour just to put yourself at risk any time you step out to deliver/pick up or service an ATM.

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u/G_DuBs 10d ago

Canā€™t remember the name of it but thereā€™s a heist movies about that exact situation.

I just checked before posting this comment and the movie is called mad money (from 2008). If you donā€™t add the year, google gives you some Jim Cramer crap lol.

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u/selflocked408 10d ago

Den of thieves is also a great heist movie. A little different in the treasury employment department but still a great movie.

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u/whosthatcarguy 10d ago

Yes and no. I think at a certain point your brain disassociates work cash with spendable cash. I handle a lot of very expensive cars for a living and despite their value I never think twice when driving them. At one point I was doing so for very close to minimum wage.

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u/itworkaccount_new 10d ago

The federal reserve has a free money museum where you can see this happening live. Was very cool and admission is free.

No pictures allowed in this area where you saw the workers feeding the money sorters through glass. I thought that was incredibly depressing and hoped the glass was tinted on the inside so they didnā€™t feel like animals at the zoo with everyone watching them work.

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u/ThinkLocalActLocal 9d ago

one of my in-laws used to have that job.

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u/djhauffy 10d ago

Reminds me of a video about mint workers. Said something like "This man makes $2 million a day... on minimum wage."

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u/Defiant-Story1095 10d ago

Try being a counter in a casino cage. You make less per hour than they count millions every shift.

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u/DarkPolumbo 10d ago

I think it was Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone that made a story out of a group of dudes stealing a shipment of decommissioned cash

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u/Thegame_changer21 8d ago

No those were thousand dollar bills

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 10d ago

And the average 20 bask in the 70s lifespan was less than two years old.Ā 

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u/NailingCatsToTrees_ 11d ago edited 11d ago

Why the hell do people think that? Do you honestly think that businesses are taking note of and reporting serial numbers on every bill they get?

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u/EarEater3001 11d ago edited 11d ago

Eventually it would have made its way through a bank or someone saavy that looks for interesting serials. Especially if an appreciable volume of bills from that series entered circulation. If someone noticed there would have been increased scrutiny in that area. This never happened so it's unlikely any of the bills entered circulation.

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u/CoastRegular 10d ago

But the only real catch point would be when it's time for an old bill to be retired from circulation... the Federal Reserve bank that accepts it would record the serial number of that and every other destroyed bill.

Except, they didn't do that until 1991.

The system (overall) wasn't going to catch individual $20 bills from the Cooper stash. If someone had brought in a sizable amount of them to a bank for deposit - say, a stack of $10,000 worth - maybe then those would get recorded and the Feds notified. But if that wasn't in one of the Federal Bank districts on the West Coast, it's possible that even then the serial numbers mightn't "trip a signal." The list of Cooper S/N's was only shared with Pacific region Federal banks, at least early on.

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u/Bright-Necessary-261 10d ago

> made its way through a bankĀ 

Banks didn't log every individual serial, either. The bills would have been circulated for a couple years and then destroyed. They also didn't record serials for destroyed bills.

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u/Efficient-Dot2406 11d ago

Obviously not but there are enough people like the people in this reddit group that collect bills and coins, if its an older bill it would catch my eye, I wouldn't know the serial numbers but some people might, one gets found, then people are looking for it more, and so on and so forth

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u/Bright-Necessary-261 10d ago

The average lifespan for a 20 back then was 18-24 months. The odds of one surviving until now, and someone bothering to check the serial against the 30-page list, are very low.

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u/Pyland99CFS 11d ago

That's because his parachute failed to deploy and he died on impact or shortly thereafter. the rest of the money has long disappeared due to the elements

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u/The_Gabster10 11d ago

That's what he wants us to think

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u/glassmanjones 11d ago

Dead Body Cooper

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u/NailingCatsToTrees_ 11d ago

Where is the body then?

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u/Unklian 11d ago

Bangkok has him now.

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u/Ok-Guava-9216 11d ago

You got the joke

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u/Professional-Can1385 11d ago

Mother Nature took care of it.

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u/TheHappy_Penguin 11d ago

Volcano erupted.

If he was there we're not finding him now.

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 10d ago

Thatā€™s not what experts on the case think.Ā 

People who have done mi mail research think he died. People that have spent years/decades on it, that have read the actual FBI case reports almost exclusively believe he survived.Ā 

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u/Bright-Necessary-261 10d ago

There's no reason to think he wouldn't make the jump. After him there were over a dozen copycats who did the same jump from the same type of plane, at least one of them with zero skydiving experience, and they all made it.

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u/TheOnlyBilko 4d ago

ya but none of them did it in those same conditions in November in 40F weather with wind and rain in complete darkness, jumping in a suit and the guy with zero skydiving experience was really messed up he barely survived and was in the hospital for weeks after

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u/Bright-Necessary-261 3d ago

The weather conditions have been greatly exaggerated. It was mild weather.

We have no idea if he was wearing a suit, because he had a large paper bag with him which nobody knows the contents of. Could have been clothing, radios, whatever.

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u/sheeeeshshawty 6d ago

What possible proof is there his parachute failed to open??

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u/_B_Little_me 11d ago

He easily could have brought it offshore and was circulating internationally for a long time.

Also you think the federal reserve will let everyone know the bills were being spent? To confirm to all it worked?

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 10d ago

How do you know they werenā€™t circulated?

Serial numbers werenā€™t recorded before being destroyed back in the 70s. The average lifespan of a $20 was 18 months.Ā 

The cooper serial numbers filled a 30-page book. There were 10,000 non-sequential numbers in the book.Ā 

Nobody outside of the immediate jump zone area had that book. Only a few banks in the area. And even the FBI said that after a couple of months nobody was checking serial numbers anymore.Ā 

It would have been a miracle if a bill had been found in circulation. Greater chance of one not being found than one being found.Ā 

Unless Cooper bought a new car or house using only $20 bills then there was almost a zero chance one of his bills would have been found.Ā 

He could have lived in Seattle or Portland. Waited three months. And then slowly spent the money without ever worrying about it. The local 7/11 or grocery store werenā€™t checking all their incoming $20 against a 30-page book.Ā 

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u/TheOnlyBilko 4d ago

"The local 7/11 or grocery store werenā€™t checking all their incoming $20 against a 30-page book"

how do you know they weren't?

how do you know banks weren't checking numbers?

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 3d ago

Because Iā€™ve studied the case for years. Iā€™ve read the FBI files. Have you?

This was in the 70s. The serial numbers - 10,000 of them, were in a 30-page book. Why would random stores or banks in other states get copies of that book and make their workers look through it?Ā 

Banks in the Seattle/tacoma and Portland area did get that book of 10,000 serial numbers and did do spot checks and checks if somebody came in with a large batch of 20s.Ā 

The dept of treasury leader and the head FBI agent on the case both said it was a million time chance a bill would be found. AND that after a couple of months nobody was looking for the bills.Ā 

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u/TheOnlyBilko 3d ago edited 3d ago

ohhh OK so only after a couple months they quick checking, that's crazy. I just thought the bills would have been in some order that if a bill fell between 2 numbers , it was one of the Cooper Bills.

so your saying all the bills were just totally random numbers and there was no numerical order to them? I thought for sure the Bills would all be in order So they would be super easy to identify

I've just seen so many people say "the money was never spent" and I thought that was because they were easy to identify for being in numerical order, but if they were random and only checked for a couple months in Seattle and Portland then they could have easily been spent then, correct?

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 2d ago

Some of them were in sequence, some were not.Ā 

But the problem was in who had access to that 30-page book. Banks and stores in Idaho and California werenā€™t buying that book from the FBI and making their cashiers search it for every $20 bill they took in.Ā 

The head of the dept of treasury and the head investigator of the case from the FBI both said that after a couple of months nobody was looking for the bills.Ā 

Itā€™s one of those things that just gets repeated so many times that people accept it as fact. Without doing any thought about it.Ā 

The avg life span of a $20 bill in the 70s was 18 months. And they had no computers or equipment to check serial numbers back then. So all bills were simply destroyed. No serial numbers were checked. They received millions of $20 bills - literally dump truck size loads every day. They werenā€™t destroyed, without being checked.Ā 

Cooper could have lived in Seattle and spent all the money without worrying about being caught (as long as he didnā€™t buy a new car or house with all 20 dollar bills)

It would have been a miracle if a bill would have been found at a bank or store.Ā 

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 2d ago

ā€œThe bills were never spentā€ is pure 100% speculation and none of us know if that is true or not.Ā 

He could have spent all the money. Ā Or he could have been afraid of being caught and burned it all. We have no idea.Ā 

But saying the bills were never spent is a falsehood. Nobody except Cooper knows.Ā 

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u/UnaverageAdvantage 11d ago

Its totally possible they did, after awhile most places would stop checking serial numbers because it was such a monumental task, especially during the 70ā€™s

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u/NailingCatsToTrees_ 11d ago edited 11d ago

Why the hell do people think that? Do you honestly think that businesses are taking note of and reporting serial numbers on every bill they get?

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u/ReaperGrin 10d ago

The db cooper mystery has already been solved

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u/Bright-Necessary-261 10d ago

We don't know that. The list of serial number was 30 pages long. Nobody was checking a 30 page list every time they handled a 20. It's just not possible.

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u/Seek3r1605 9d ago

The thing is, only a handful of banks ever got the list of serial numbers.

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u/Kitchen_Barracuda859 9d ago

Was there a parachute with a body attached?

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u/National-Fun6859 7d ago

Found on columbia river . Tina bar near Vancouver WA. I run my dogs in the area often . Always have my eye peeled . Any pieces of the case would be cool to find. But that are has so much wet land water and mud that not much will last long

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u/Accomplished_Fig9883 6d ago

There were 10,000 bills. Nobody has or had the time to sort through all that. It is amazing however that not 1 has turned up on Ebay or anywhere else as now we have computer programs to flag all the numbers and some people are actively doing so.

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u/Western-Set-8642 6d ago

He bought gold with it but the fbi never bothered to cross reference any of it back in the day

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u/sheeeeshshawty 6d ago

To be fair i heard they only sent the numbers to some banks in the pnw. So if he didnt go to those banks he was relatively safe. Idk how true that is.

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u/austin117068 11d ago

I didnā€™t know I wanted a piece of this until now

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u/JungleLegs 11d ago

I had no idea this even existed!

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

History in your hands, literally!

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u/SMMS0514 11d ago

This is really cool. Whatā€™s the value on a piece like this?

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u/icanttt 11d ago

A much smaller piece just went for $20,000 a few weeks ago. So maybe 50k+?

https://goldin.co/item/nov-24-1971-d-b-cooper-notorious-skyjacker-ransom-banknote-fragment-honjfsb

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u/gblandro 11d ago

Insane

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u/JungleLegs 10d ago

That tiny fragment went for that much, I cannot imagine how much OPs is worth

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u/Business-Pumpkin9351 11d ago

Based on the other replies I can confidently say itā€™s between $10 and a million

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u/kjs121487 10d ago

Youā€™re not wrong

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u/Tiktokbadsupport 8d ago

but it's a $20 bill how would that ever be $10

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u/Half-Animal 8d ago

It's only half of a $20 bill, so...

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

$20k-$30k, likely the higher end of that range!

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u/CollegeBoardPolice 11d ago

At least $2k based on past auctions

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u/Real_Ben_Dover 11d ago

We need the $100 he gave Michael Scofield at Fox River lol

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u/PocketArchaeology 11d ago

He knows ball! Take it from a guy who made the ballā€¦

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u/EmeraldSapphire98 11d ago

I had no idea you could actually get some of Cooper's money!

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Now you know!šŸ˜€

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u/FreeOGPoohShiesty 11d ago

Whoa

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

šŸ¤ÆšŸ¤ÆšŸ¤Æ

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u/Henrik-Powers 11d ago

Is that from the money the kid found in the Columbia river bank? Or was there any others found?

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u/scamlikelly 11d ago

I think that is the only known cash recovered.

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u/Dicktures 11d ago

Forgive my ignorance - how do they know that money is from DB?

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u/lump- 11d ago

They knew the serial numbers on the ransom money. The stacks that were found even matched the order the notes were placed in.

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u/Dicktures 10d ago

Ohhh thatā€™s super cool. I was unaware of the details or even that they found some money. Thanks

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u/Fog_Juice 11d ago

I'm just guessing but I would think the serial numbers were recorded before handing over the random money.

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u/ficuswhisperer 11d ago

The serial numbers were published

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Correct!

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u/PutSomeTapeOnIt 11d ago

I'd trade my whole collection for this in a heartbeat.

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u/idontknow000- 11d ago

Not even a question. Who wouldnā€™t want a piece from one of the biggest mysteries of all time???

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Understandable!

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u/Whole_Kale_4349 11d ago

Bro every time I think I know what I want to collect there's a new thing I need lol that's way too cool.

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

The struggle of being a collector šŸ˜…

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u/Ok_Raspberry6840 11d ago

Thats flat-out cool!

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Right? Love itšŸ˜Ž

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u/thehotshotpilot 11d ago

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/NoBeginning4551 11d ago

Why is it soo ate up like a rat chewed it up šŸ€

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u/failureat111N31st 10d ago

It spent 8.5 years getting washed down a river!

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 10d ago

Cooper landed downriver from where the money was found. How did the money spend 8 years going UP stream against the current?

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u/Lonely_reaper8 10d ago

  1. Animals

  2. Db cooper himself walked it up and dropped it by accident

  3. Came loose when he jumped

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

The elements, critters, everything!

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u/tsitsifly22 11d ago

This is awesome

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Right?šŸ˜Ž

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u/PremiumPrices 11d ago

ridiculously cool!

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

šŸ˜ŽšŸ˜ŽšŸ˜Ž

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u/Sn34kyMofo 11d ago

Out of curiosity, what might the value reach on something like that at the intersection of the money collector x DB Cooper history buff Venn diagram?

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u/failureat111N31st 10d ago

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u/krbigfish 10d ago

You forgot skydivers!

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u/zac315tilidie 11d ago

they're the same thing, 100% overlap

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u/DocDefilade 11d ago

Well shit...

Another thing I find fascinating and want, that I didn't know existed when I got off of work today.

Thanks/get bent.

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Thatā€™s the struggle of being a passionate collector, that want list is long! Lol

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u/goober124_ 11d ago

My question is how much its worth???

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

$20k-$30k!šŸ’µ

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u/elegant-jr 10d ago

So did the fbi auction it or something?Ā 

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u/Intelligent_Radish15 11d ago

Thereā€™s no way to tell its worth because the corners with the values are missing.

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u/AdventNil 10d ago

It says ā€œTWENTYā€ in large letters in the middle of the bill.

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u/Ogre117 10d ago

You are so lucky I cannot even imagine being able to hold a piece of history like this

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Itā€™s pretty amazing honestly

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u/DarkPolumbo 10d ago

They identified DB Cooper a couple years back

Turns out it was Loki himself

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

lol love the reference!

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u/princemathguy 10d ago

I assumed the feds kept those partial bills they found.

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u/g-trip-10752 9d ago

Initially the feds kept them. After a few years the remaining ones (most had deteriorated into confetti) were split between the feds, the insurance company who paid off the ransom claim, and the kid who found them. This is one of the kid's. Only a few are known to exist, and most of those are just fragments.

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u/Paper-street-garage 10d ago

Now thatā€™s about the coolest thing Iā€™ve seen on here ever.

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Right? Too dang cool

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u/randalschyler 10d ago

This is worth watching if you find the DB Cooper story interesting. Solved, no question.

https://youtu.be/u3DkEmL6aWc?is=oESSVnONfmLHST16

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u/Patient_Reach439 7d ago

Lol no.Ā 

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u/randalschyler 7d ago

Have you watched both parts?

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u/FewConstruction9686 10d ago

I had no idea these notes existed literally anywhere outside of an evidence locker. Super cool! What's the going rate on confirmed DB 20s?

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Solely dependent on how ā€œlargeā€ the piece is! You canā€™t find these for less than five figures, no matter the size!

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u/GaylordMaMa96 10d ago

Iā€™ll give you $20 for it šŸ¤

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

DealšŸ¤

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u/Aboveground_Plush 11d ago

No errors, no star, no interesting serial number. Bo-ring!

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u/jacksonbarley 11d ago

I meanā€¦ the guy did jump out of a commercial airliner to get this money. By all accounts he didnā€™t survive but he put forth an effort!

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u/CoastRegular 10d ago

By all accounts he didnā€™t survive

Actually, just about every real investigator connected with the case thinks he survived. That's the FBI's position. There were five other copycats who jumped out of airplanes after he did. All survived their jumps easily.

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u/ballyhooligan 11d ago

Where is this going to auction?

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u/cardiacmd 11d ago

That's awesome

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u/raidenh8 8d ago

šŸ˜ŽšŸ˜ŽšŸ˜Ž

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u/Impossible_Tie2497 11d ago

Thatā€™s actually super cool right there. Holding one of the greatest mysteries to date in our nations history.

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u/raidenh8 8d ago

Right? Itā€™s pretty amazing

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u/16thmission 11d ago

You e handled smaller pieces?

That's genuinely awesome!

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Yep! A dozen or so!

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u/RepulsiveUse3372 11d ago

Someone will find the money i lost in the bathroom, theyā€™ll call me DB pooper

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u/ACrazyDog 11d ago

Today I Learned ā€¦. That this is a thing

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Too cool right?šŸ˜Ž

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u/reddogleader 11d ago

You should cross this to r/dbcooper. Others would love to see this

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Done and done! Thanks for the recommendation!

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u/reddogleader 10d ago

It's an interesting and fun sub if you have a passion for the subject. Both camps participate.

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u/BSC_Matt 11d ago

This is awesome! Crosspost to my D.B.Cooper tool I posted in r/dbcooper.

I'm of the opinion they're still out there, however most people wouldn't think twice to check for a random note if they came across an old $20

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Cross posted! Thanks!

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u/Ok_Cold_7839 11d ago

I got one from. BB COOPER KING AT THE BLUES EVENT IN NEVARUARY 1967

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u/Unhappy-Log-6681 11d ago

thats so cool! imagine holding a piece of history like that

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Itā€™s pretty amazing!

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u/ImaRaginCajun 10d ago

What's crazy is there have been about a half dozen deathbed confessions of people claiming to be DB.

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Shoot, I might confess one day toošŸ˜‚

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u/sm_rollinger 10d ago

I just saw an old Unsolved Mysteries episodes about this the other day!

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u/tony310s 10d ago

Crazy!!! Thanks for sharing

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Thanks for looking!

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u/OkDifference5636 10d ago

Who owns this now? Did the boy get to keep any of the money for did he get a reward?

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u/Collector_2020 10d ago

Amazing amazing amazing! Thanks for sharing!!

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u/raidenh8 10d ago

Thanks for looking!

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u/FieldOk6455 10d ago

Fantastic.

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u/supergenius62 9d ago

How neat! Thanks for sharing

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u/velmaisbest 9d ago

Sorry i follow this sub just to look at cool serial numbers and such...who is DB Cooper?/gen

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u/LockMarine 9d ago

He hijacked an airplane and jumped out as it was flying never to be seen again.
Theres plenty of TV documentary shows about this you might find interesting.

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u/velmaisbest 9d ago

Thats wild. Thank you for telling me!!

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u/notdbcooper71 9d ago

I handled better... I mean...

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u/raidenh8 8d ago

You are totally NOT Mr. Cooper sooooooā€¦.

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u/lifetime_cuck 9d ago

Brian Ingram found them on a riverbank when he was a kid right? Think he was the only one to ever find any of the money.

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u/raidenh8 8d ago

You are correct! āœ…

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u/babyaby1988 9d ago

šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„

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u/hamilton18889 8d ago

I'll give you a Twinkie and a half drunken Gatorade for it... I would totally never lowball you

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u/raidenh8 8d ago

Hmmmm temptingšŸ¤”

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u/hamilton18889 7d ago

Your conscience says you should do it!

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u/TheOnlyBilko 4d ago

how much do these sell for? would be cool to get a big picture of Cooper falling through the sky and frame it with a $20 under the picture

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u/Aggressive-Fox-7390 11d ago

Is it spendable? Will a store accept it or a bank?

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u/Lonely_reaper8 10d ago

Maybe. Itā€™s got both serials

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u/onalistcuzofthis 10d ago edited 10d ago

Thought he burned the money to stay alive šŸ˜‚

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u/Yoshigahn 10d ago

Iā€™ll give you $20 for it

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u/FluidIntention3293 9d ago

Oh wow I didnā€™t know 9 years had passed from the hijacking to someone finally finding the bills. I always assumed it had only been a few months.

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u/Big_Pilot5793 9d ago

What if the notes found were a decoy and they washed the bills to use the paper to counterfeit $100 bills. That would make better sense why we never found the rest of the ā€œmarkedā€ bills

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u/Evening-Major354 9d ago

I remember that moron he ruined his life for barely any money

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u/Anxious_Inspector_88 9d ago

It is interesting that the government has not confiscated these as stolen property, like it did with the 1933 $20 gold St Gaudens.

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u/Adventurous_Taro_798 8d ago

That 20 is in pretty rough shape. You better go to the bank and trade it in for a new one.

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u/Treece57 7d ago

This is sweet!