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."

  Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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