Slightly OT: D.B. Cooper currency sale / T206 Wagner partial?

[BRoberts]

Though I don't really collect currency, I like to follow any auction that has something unusual. I saw that Heritage last week sold the remnants of two bills that were part of the ransom paid to hijacker D.B. Cooper. These two fragments and the prices they brought reminded me of a sale years ago of a partial T206 Wagner. I think a lot of us can relate to owning even a piece of a Wagner. That being said, the prices these two partial bills sold for has me scratching my head.

https://currency.ha.com/itm/small-si...ription-071515

https://currency.ha.com/itm/small-si...ription-071515

[doug.goodman]

That's pretty cool though

[Rhotchkiss]

What’s nuts is that I never before heard of Cooper or the hijacking until last night when there was some show about it (on history or travel or something like that), and how that kid found the stacks of money in the sand by the river. And now you post this thread. When it rains it pours

Definitely cool, but I am not sure how good a buy/collectible it is. But it sold for over $10k, so what do I know?!?!

[doug.goodman]

DB was a f'n legend when I was a kid

[Michael B]

The movie 'Without a Paddle" with Matthew Lilliard, Dax Shepherd, Seth Green and Burt Reynolds is about three guys trying to find the D.B. Cooper ransom. It is an adventure/comedy where Burt Reynolds is alluded to be D.B. Cooper

[mrreality68]

Some great movies and documentaries about DB Cooper and it is cool to have some of the bills from the hijacking’s but wow

Those pieces are so small and yet it went for more than I would have thought

What people pay to own different types of pieces of history

[clydepepper]

This one went for $475K in February of last year:

Wagner card sells for 475K in Feb 2022.jpg


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Originally Posted by BRoberts

Though I don't really collect currency, I like to follow any auction that has something unusual. I saw that Heritage last week sold the remnants of two bills that were part of the ransom paid to hijacker D.B. Cooper. These two fragments and the prices they brought reminded me of a sale years ago of a partial T206 Wagner. I think a lot of us can relate to owning even a piece of a Wagner. That being said, the prices these two partial bills sold for has me scratching my head.


https://currency.ha.com/itm/small-si...ription-071515

https://currency.ha.com/itm/small-si...ription-071515

[bnorth]

Cheal Sonnen has been claiming for a few years now that DB Cooper was his Native American uncle.

[Cliff Bowman]

He never referred to himself as DB Cooper, only as Dan Cooper, I believe. That was a mistake by a newspaper writer/reporter shortly after the incident happened and for whatever reason it stuck.

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

DB was a f'n legend when I was a kid

Me too...growing up in the PNW he was a BIG deal...

[babraham]

I remember watching Unsolved Mysteries as a kid and seeing the episodes about the DB Cooper hijacking.
And then Netflix just had a great documentary about it and all the possible suspects.
Pretty cool to have a piece of that infamous (and unsolved!) hijacking, but that's a good amount of money for those small remnants.

[Lucas00]

I know rick is cheap but 10k seems unreal for that fragment. In 1980 Along the Columbia River in Vancouver, a boy discovered $5,800 of damaged twenties from the cooper ransom. Sounds like fragments should be easily available, but I guess im underestimating the amount of currency collectors.

https://arktimes.com/news/arkansas-r...-b-cooper-cash

https://youtu.be/Zmr39RWVjzQ

[Schlesinj]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Some great movies and documentaries about DB Cooper and it is cool to have some of the bills from the hijacking’s but wow

Those pieces are so small and yet it went for more than I would have thought

What people pay to own different types of pieces of history

A few recent ones on Netflix worth a look.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

What’s nuts is that I never before heard of Cooper or the hijacking until last night when there was some show about it (on history or travel or something like that), and how that kid found the stacks of money in the sand by the river. And now you post this thread. When it rains it pours

Definitely cool, but I am not sure how good a buy/collectible it is. But it sold for over $10k, so what do I know?!?!

I promise that no disrespect is meant, but how have you missed this legendary story over the past 52 years?! It's been all over the media for so long.

Now that you're familiar with it, you should check out these Beatles I've been hearing a little bit about. They've apparently written a couple of toe-tappers.

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

I promise that no disrespect is meant, but how have you missed this legendary story over the past 52 years?! It's been all over the media for so long.

Now that you're familiar with it, you should check out these Beatles I've been hearing a little bit about. They've apparently written a couple of toe-tappers.

I was born in 1974 and was not watching media in my teens in the 80's. By the time I started paying attention to things other than girls, beer, sports, and friends, it was very late 90's and I never came across the story.

I did hear about the Air France hijacking in the 70's and I remember a bad/violent one in the mid 80's, but I guess I am very late to the game on Cooper.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I find it truly remarkable that this escaped your field of vision for so long! My comparison to the Beatles isn't so far off, either. In the world of unsolved crimes, perhaps only Jack the Ripper is more notorious and better known.

Well, I'm glad you managed to finally hear about it. It's been done to death, but if you're fresh to it and have interest, it can prove fascinating for a great amount of time.

[JollyElm]

There are a billion specials, investigations, etc., that have covered the case forever. Some even claim the found money on the bank of the Columbia River was planted there, because tides and air currents and flight paths (and not enough proper water damage to the bills) in no way make it possible that the bundle came from Danny Boy that night.

The wildest thing is, every new History Channel show presents suspects who the producers are 'sure' is the perpetrator, but it's a very rare event when they simply show pictures or videotape to the surviving passengers/crew members who interacted with him and ask, "Hey, was this the guy who did it?"


And there's this...

638. D.B. Recouper
Anyone attempting in vain to resell a card for a profit that he paid much too much for to begin with, just not comprehending that his money’s simply lost in the wind and it ain’t coming back.

[ALR-bishop]

Surely someone could restore these 😬