IKE DOLLAR HOARD ON EBAY 上市 Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 28, July 11, 2004, Article 13
IKE DOLLAR HOARD ON EBAY
I guess everything *is* bigger in Texas, where a man has
upped the ante on the million cent hoard with a four and and
half ton pile of Eisenhower dollars. From the man's press
release:"More than twenty years ago, a Texas man's casual hobby
of throwing aside Ike dollar coins as he ran across them,
eventually turned into a monstrous collection that he's selling
as one lot on eBay. The coins, legal tender though they haven't
been produced by the U.S. mint for more than a quarter
century, weigh an amazing 8,750 pounds ... almost four and a
half tons.""Aside from the weight, he thinks the most interesting thing
about the collection is an accumulation of facts he compiled
about the 175,000 coins. For instance, he says that if they
were placed vertically in one single stack, the coins would
soar 1,458 feet high. "That's 472 feet taller than the Eiffel
Tower ... more than two and a half times the height of the
Washington Monument, and two hundred feet taller than the
Empire State Building." He also says if they were laid side by
side on the ground in a straight line, they would be longer
than 73 football fields end-to-end."- 2004-07-11
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