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by JoeAltmaier 313 days ago
A cube of 100 dollar bills four feet on a side is about 160M dollars. So, six of them.
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This made me do a search on the missing Iraqi billions, as I remember there were details at the time how it was packaged in pallets and flown into the country. Couldn't find that, but according to The Guardian [0]:

> Over the first 14 months of the occupation, 363 tonnes of new $100 bills were shipped in - $12bn, in cash.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/20/usa.iraq

Surprisingly portable. I can see why the Treasury doesn't want to print larger denomination bills
Actually, a billion dollars look like a ten digit number at the bottom of a spreadsheet.
This would fit in a standard cargo van, but the weight would crush it.