I expected it to be 50% short because whoever assembled it swiped half of the cash assuming nobody would ever count. 50% over is hilarious.

I can't help wondering how big a cube you'd need to fill it with 1 million $1 coins.

43x43 piles of 541 coins each make 1000309 coins with a pile height of 541*2mm = 1.082m, while the width would be somewhat less than 43*26.5mm = 1.1395m with a hexagonal packing.

So just over 1m cubed, a little smaller than the bill version. But at 8100 kg, tons heavier.

I bet it’s not cash all the way through to make it look bigger

Something on this blog post is spiking my cpu to 100%. Any idea?

Edit: it seems to be that video embed

Someone needs to call/email the museum and ask what is actually in there because it don't add up.

That reminds when a corrupt bureaucrat or a high ranking military in Russia gets arrested there frequently an amount of cash found in the apartment/house equivalent to 1-3 cubic meters in $100 bills (and usually it is a mix of mostly dollars with some euros) .

I don't think the cube is stacked as uniformly as the OP thinks.

Notice in this photo how the side of the cub right/side - the bills are not oriented in the same direction as on the other sides.

https://calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/cube-side.jpg/

I imagine that to have the cube displayed on its corner like that the center must contain some pretty solid structure that anchors the whole thing securely to the floor or else the 2000+ pounds of carefully balanced cash would present an even larger liability.

This good article contains a photograph of a million quid nailed to a wall. Since burnt by scoundrels

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~johol/KLF/Money.html

This is a cool tool. Did the same thing (manually, just counted and switched colors whenever I hit 100) when I vacuumed up like a thousand yellow jackets from inside our walls. Couldn’t believe it when I hit 500, would have never estimated so high.