Dollar bills aren't very thick: .0043 inches per bill according to the U.S. Treasury. Stacked vertically, a million dollars in hundred dollar bills would be less than four feet high. That's shorter than the average seven year old. That might not sound like much, but trust us, it is.
Take a look at these pictures of a ton of money, all in one place.
- $205 million seized from a Mexican drug dealer's house
- Yep, those are pennies. 100 million of them, as part of Common Cents' Penny Harvest.
- A million Euros.
- Shredded Money, by artist Jan Henderikse. It hurts just looking at it.
- $41 million seized in Columbia
- Seized on a bus in Laredo, Texas. No one claimed it, so if you're looking for a couple extra bucks...
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3.22.10
By David
These pictures are really impressive. But the third picture doesn't show "A Million Euros", at least I don't think so. Look: There are several sheets of Fifty-Euro-Notes. Each sheet consists of several notes (to be cut yet) as well. The top sheet consists of 40 notes (eight by five). The hole stack consists of -- let's say -- "sub stacks"; there are twenty of them stacked. I assumed 200 sheets to be in one "sub stack", maybe there are more sheets in one "sub stack". So the shown amount is *at least* fifty by eight by five by two-hundred by twenty equals *eight million* Euros. Probably it's even more.
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3.22.10
By Jordan
You know, David, I actually had a similar thought. If you click through the image, it will take you to Bundes Druckerei where that photo is decribed as a million euro pallet. Given how large the stack is, I assumed that that meant the pallet contained 1 million Euro notes as opposed to a certain amount of Euro notes totaling 1 million Euro. What that sum would be, though, I have no idea, which is why I just wrote it as a million Euro. In any case, I think your assessment is correct. Good eye
3.22.10
By David
Thanks, Jordan. I didn't even notice the image is clickable... Now I know you cited the text of the Bundesdruckerei (how it is spelled correctly). So it seems to me, that this is simply a translation mistake, they obviously (to me -- I'm German as well as the Bundesdruckerei) meant something like "A pallet containing millions of Euros" rather than "A pallet with a million Euros". Many Germans in higher and/or representative positions don't speak English slightly well, for example "Foreign Minister" and "Vice Chancellor of Germany" Guido Westerwelle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYGPWQ0VjY starting 0:20) or the "European Commissioner for Energy in the European Commission" Günther Öttinger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWoya3u6vAM starting 0:26). It's a shame...
...and as to the "good eye": At the first look I thought "These aren't Euro bank notes" -- until I saw the little note at the bottom of the picture...
3.23.10
By mike
So why cant we use this to pay for health care instead of taxing the crap out of us. Also note mostly drug money and its mostly us currency
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3.22.10
By stan
I wonder how much went into pockets before the pictures.
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3.23.10
By Patrick
$205 million. I'll take that. i could use that kind of cash. But then again, couldn't we all.
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3.23.10
By ADMR
What Does a Billion Look Like? - $ The Love Of Money - SMH
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3.23.10
By richard
$41 million seized in Colombia, not Columbia.
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3.23.10
By gary t
ok, who gets it????? put it all back in the economy and help out this country, we have the right to know where every penny of the millions go????? every penny..............
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3.23.10
By Claude DeMoss
What, you don't think some DEA agents are corrupt?
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