Posted on 03/02/2015 12:07:41 PM PST by RightGeek
More like about 267 lbs. As gold is measured anyway. Gold is measured in troy oz. which are abut 1,1 standard oz. but troy lbs only have 12 troy oz. In regular weight it would be around 3000 oz.
Sounds like a job for Superman...at least out here at 4pm Pacific.
Thanks and I’ll add 1 gallon is around 230 cubic inches. I still don’t get how “barrels” are involved. Unless they are quart-sized barrels.
Agreed. Thousands of trucks take I-95 through that area every day. Truck (pretty much unmarked based on what I saw on news) develops mechanical problems. Then a white van with three masked robbers just happens to pull up to truck and roll out barrels of gold. The odds of this being a random robbery are astronomical.
And another thing, I drive this route frequently to go see my son in college. This is a heavily patrolled area, and 6:30 PM on a Sunday night is probably the busiest traffic time of the week. This has BS written all over it.
The same place all coin dealers deal with. Got any Franklin Mint gold or silver coins you want to sell? I'm sure there's a couple dealers in your area.
You take your coins to them and they give you the value of the gold or the silver in the coins, not the Franklin Mint elevated value that was promised you. The same thing goes with any old silver coins such as dimes, nickels, quarters, you name it.
What do they do with it? They melt it down and sell it in bulk.......
“Where would this gold be fenced?”
It would be funny if they went to melt it down and discovered it was that Chinese fake gold...
At $1,200 an ounce you are talking over 200 pounds of metal
Same scrap metal buyers that people are taking all of the stolen wiring from inhabited homes and businesses...
They probably went outside to check under the hood or whatever.
“So you could just go into any pawn shop or coin store and exchange it for cash, or sell on e-bay.”
It would take time and 100+ coin shops to get rid of $4.8 million worth without raising suspicion.
Goldbug ping.
That’s why they called it The Big Dig.
$4 million in gold truck
Shaszam
1 gallon of gold weighs 161 pounds, so 200 pounds would be about 5 quarts.
Mighty small barrel!
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