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Re:Is it still possible to get away with a heist? by sandworm101 on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:17AM (#10936354)
Much of those treasures were total fiction. A "gold bathroom sink" sounds like something, until you find that the gold plate is only a few atoms thick and worth a couple bucks at most.
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Re:Is it still possible to get away with a heist? by tyingq on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:20AM (#10938611)
Sure. Some of it was real though...

$780M USD in cash for example, was found. The soldiers didn't grab all of it, but skimmed a significant amount.

"In all, 50 steel boxes were found by the five soldiers ...but only 47 were declared. It was a heist completed in an afternoon and worth $12.3 million." [1]

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/14...

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