It’s D B Cooper day

BustDMs

November 24, 1971. D B Cooper parachutes out of the plane he hijacked with $200K. Years later some was recovered from a riverbed. I’ve tried a couple of times to purchase one of the notes without success.

Show me yours!

Gluggo

Uhhhh I believe if I did I would have Big Brother knocking on my door. I think the Interview could have ramifications should I be evasive during their said “ INTERVIEW. “

ms70

Some of those made it to private hands?

BustDMs

One of the currency slabbing companies have certified the fragmented bills in a special D B Cooper themed holder complete with the sunglass image of D B.

topstuf

amwldcoin

Call Ethan at Southern Coin & Collectibles in Hoover Al. He had quite a few of them.

@BustDMs said:
November 24, 1971. D B Cooper parachutes out of the plane he hijacked with $200K. Years later some was recovered from a riverbed. I’ve tried a couple of times to purchase one of the notes without success.

Show me yours!

ms70

I want one.

That's pretty cool. I'm just curious as to how they were released to the public.

ms70

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BillDugan1959

@ms70 said:
I want one.

That's pretty cool. I'm just curious as to how they were released to the public.

I recall the find, which IIRC was well-publicized at the time.

Don't recall the details of how some were released to the public, other than it had to have been legitimate. Highly collectible.

BillDugan1959

Memory is tricky, but the notes could have been released much later than 1980. So the story got more than the one set of national media coverage. PCGS was certainly later than the early 1980s.

ms70

Found this:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22478557/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/want-buy-some-db-coopers-cash/

A court forced Ingram to split the find with the airline's insurance company, which put up the ransom. Now, Ingram said he wants to sell his two envelopes with scraps as small as pennies, along with the 13 half-bills and nearly 20 full bills he owns.

And this. Looks like Heritage did the auction:

https://www.foxnews.com/story/d-b-cooper-skyjacking-cash-sold-in-dallas-auction

And it's still in their archives:

https://historical.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=3190+790+231+4294960632&Nty=1&Ntt=d+b+cooper&Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&ic10=ArchiveTab-071515

ricko

Amazing... I did not know that the finder got to keep some of the bills... I thought they all went first to the FBI and then to the insurance company if there were any with retained worth. Learn new stuff all the time... keeps me young Cheers, RickO