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504,144 coins fiom the nearly a thousand other articles' dropped into the well required the services of 12 men from the Caverns staff for three weeks. Using chemicals and. lire steam from a steam-jenny to remove tire slime and corrosion, the coins were then dried by means of a flame thrower to separate them for sorting and counting.
The 3,853 pounds of reclaimed U. S. money.c o n s l s t i n g of $3,680.06 in pennies, $4,240.00 in nickels, $4,442.80 in dime s', $1,628.50 in quarters, $168.50 in half-dollars and $59.00 in silver dollars..was formed into a 22-foot heart-shaped mosaic on the Caverns floor betore being shipped to the Federal Reserve Bank.
572 coins of foreign mintage were found in the Well, representing visitors from 37 different lands around the globe, from Argentina
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