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D.B. Cooper – The Getaway Money – Video

 At the 2018 Florida United Numismatists Convention, Paper Money dealer Ethan Thomaston exhibited several banknotes connected to notorious airline hijacker D.B. Cooper. D.B. Cooper, or a man using the name as an alias, hijacked a Boeing 727 bound for Seattle, Washington on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 24, 1971. Armed with a device that […]

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Q&A: Why is there less color variation in U.S. paper money?

The following Q&A is excerpted from Clifford Mishler’s Coins: Questions & Answers, 5th edition:
Q: The color green is so historically traditional the backs of our paper money that we refer to U.S

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