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Dallas-based Heritage Galleries sells $20 bills belonging to famed parachuting skyjacker D.B. Cooper
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DALLAS — Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries sold 15 $20 bills recovered from a famous skyjacking in 1971 by D.B. Cooper on Friday for more than $37,000. Let's see, 15 X $20 would ordinarily = $300. But bidders, who bought the $20s in pairs, paid about $6,500 each, or $3,275 per $20.
The bills were sold by Brian Ingram of Mena, Ark., who found three bundles of deteriorating $20 bills buried in the sand on the shore of the Columbia River near Portland, Ore. in 1980 when he was 8. He owns 70 more bills.
D.B. Cooper was famous for parachuting off a plane he skyjacked from Portland to Seattle, after claiming he had a bomb. But he was never found.
Posted by T.G.
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