Trivia: What's special?

Could it be from a missing person who stole it and crashed a plane?

 

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I think those notes were pretty much destroyed by the environment this one looks too good for that.

 

Almost there with the Astronaut part, but it's not Neil Armstrong or the shuttle.

This note was recovered (er, found!) along with a few Mercury dimes. Hint, hint.

John

 

• DB Cooper had no known connection with Kansas
• He parachuted from the hijacked Northwest Airlines 727 during a rainstorm over southwestern Washington State
• The plane then landed safely
• His loot consisted entirely of $20 notes, mostly with "L" serial numbers; no singles.

Hmmmm - Chapaquidick Island is in Massachusetts, so it wouldn't seem that this bill was in the pocket of JFK's brother, to get stained in the waters under the bridge, in order to wind up in a Kansas museum. (Ike's Presidential in Abeline?)

I give up!

 

Did Dorothy's house land on it?

 

Buddy Holly? Big Bopper?

 

I seriously need to know what's up with this note; its killing me!!!!!!

 

can't be that many teeth left to pull to get this answer being dangled before us all day

 

It was in Laura Engles Wilder's pocket when she drove her car into the creek.

 

Does it have anything to do with the Mercury #11 spacecraft that sank in the Atlantic and was recovered 38 years later?

 

You got it.

This note was one that astronaut Gus Grissom hid on his Mercury mission on Liberty Bell 7 for his space flight. His plan was to take some money (including this star note and many Mercury dimes) and then sell them once he returned as money that had been in space. His plan was to do this without NASA knowing.

Unfortunately for him, upon splashdown, the explosive bolts on his capsule door blew, causing water to rush inside. He managed to escape, but his capsule sank along with his hidden cache, 21 July 1961. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell_7 for more info)

It was recovered in 1999 and restored at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS, where it now lives after a short tour.

This note as well as some Mercury dimes were on display. Being the collector, I had to take a photo.

John

 

Pretty cool...:thumb: :thumb:

RickieB

 

That was fun.....Thanks John!!!

 

That's pretty cool, I thought being submersed in water for so long would have destroyed the notes. Guess it was too cold down there.