they had this guy on local TV back when he was sellin the money, I think he lived over by Ft. Smith at Alma.
SEATTLE, Wash. -- Pieces of history from the infamous D.B Cooper skyjacking will hit the auction block Friday and Saturday.
FBI sketch
D.B. Cooper
An Arkansas man who was eight-years old when he found some of the Cooper ransom money along the banks of the Columbia River decided to sell more than a dozen of the tattered $20 bills.
Brian Ingram found approximately $5,800 of the $200,000 ransom given to the skyjacker before he bailed out of an airliner in 1971. The FBI later returned a small portion of the bills to Ingram. He initially had a total of 84 bills and fragments.
“Fifteen of the $20 denomination bills will be offered to the public for the first time in the upcoming auction,” said Steve Ivy, Co-Chairman of Heritage Auction Galleries.
The recovered ransom notes were authenticated in February and placed in protective, archival storage holders by PCGS Currency, a Santa Ana, California paper money authentication service. Each holder has a label with the FBI’s 1971 artist’s sketch of Cooper wearing sunglasses.
The D.B. Cooper cash will be included in a big auction of American memorabilia in Dallas, Texas and online, June 13 and 14.
The highest online bid for one of the bills on Thursday was $4,250.
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