The Great Dime Heist of 2023
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Wow....really? Let's break into a truck full of money at the mint and steal.....dimes??? Yep...happened overnight. The master thieves broke into the overnight trailer parking lot at the Philly Mint and took almost $100,000 worth of new dimes. That's a heavy story....reportedly around 5000 lbs. Yikes! What is that going to do to that mintage value? Bags or rolls?? Ugh. Here's a shot from NBC:
and video from AP:https://uw-media.usatoday.com/embed/video/11659934002?placement=snow-embed
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Look for a bunch of dimes dumped uselessly along the road in 1-2 weeks. What are they going to do with them, deposit it?
That's a lot of pay phone calls.
Where is Dimeman ?
Wow... Basically, a useless haul... Unless they take them to a Coinstar, that would be interesting to watch....
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It was a WalMart parking lot overnight. It's a common practice to park trucks there before a long drive, go home, get sleep, then start your drive the next day.
Since they were going from the mint, there's a chance there's some errors in those million plus dimes stolen. From my understanding, the way the mint works these days, processors who process coinage directly from the mint are obligated to return errors they find, and these dimes would be circumventing that whole step of the process in finding errors.
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What i am wondering is why anybody would transport $750K in anything other than an armored car?
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No armored truck big enough to carry 19 tons and
yet not valuable enough to warrant a security escort. A lot of truck's out there carrying cargo on excess of $750K.
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the truck driver had picked up the coins from the Philadelphia Mint in Old City, drove to the Northeast where he lives, parked the trailer in the parking lot overnight and went home to rest before the next leg of his trip to Florida. Police said that was not an "unusual" practice.
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Hey, i always heard if coins are found in a parking lot it's free game!
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how many dimes in one of those tote bags, looks like maybe they just got one tote?
and transferred to trash buckets?
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A ballistic bag of dimes contains approximately 500,000 dimes (coins aren't counted, the bags are weighed)
Thanks @wozymodo
so maybe they got most of 2 bags although I only see one in the pics.
Possible first responders 'found' some dimes also.
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Any one get Amy charges against any one? Just wondering
Last I heard there have been no arrests.
Wonder if we'll see more ads like this in the future!
“Amy charges?”
Who’s Amy?
A little late for the March of Dimes, just saying
Armed security drivers and security safeguards on the shipment.
Camera?
GPS tracking device with live feed back to the main hub.
Sensors on the truck doors.
Do the drivers not have communication and or have to check in periodically.
You know the simply safe stuff...
Who's bright idea was it to make a scheduled stop and wouldn't that be something to be cleared from the top?
The trailer was locked. Gheeesh, what more do you want? It wasn't a truckload of quarters or innovative dollars!!
They scooped them up with a snow shovel. They should Grade them "Walmart Dime Heist" MS63 Genuine shovel marks
BRUTE® trashcans sure can handle it, along with the forumite who has all those wheat cents stashed in his garage.
The ultimate parking lot find for those who got some before the police arrived. Lots of new pristine parking lot finds to show up here.
I would get some of these trash cans, fill em with dimes, and put em in my barn.
Found the suspects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9yjcBRyNUo
i heard she was the ring leader. its best we know nothing, just saying. have a good day