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DIMES SPILLED ON TEXAS HIGHWAYA truck tipped over and spilled $800,000 worth of dimes on a highway in Texas. -Garrett 
Just days after a truck dropped bags of cash in Illinois, an 18-wheeler spilled $800,000 in dimes on a highway in Texas. The vehicle carrying the dimes was driving through Alvord in Wise County, about 75 miles northwest of Dallas around 5:30 a.m. April 29, when "the driver veered off the roadway, overcorrected, and caused the 18-wheeler to roll onto its side," the Texas Department of Public Safety said. The accident caused $800,000 in dimes to be scattered on the roadway. Video footage from the incident shows crew workers using shovels and a vacuum cleaner to pick up the dimes and clear the roadway, which was reopened around 7:00 pm. Some workers even picked up the dimes with their bare hands. Authorities did not specify who was operating the truck, why it was carrying thousands of loose dimes and what the destination was. It is also not known if all the money was recovered.
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This happens far more often than one might think. A semi-truck carrying another $800,000 in dimes crashed and spilled its load near Las Vegas in 2018 - see the earlier linked article. And Len Augsburger of the Newman Numismatic Portal kindly provided this Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine article from April 1970 about a truck that spewed forty bags of dimes on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Len had recently responded to a request for the article from an NNP website visitor. -Editor 
The NNP visitor wrote: "At a family hunting cabin in Pennsylvania around Thanksgiving 1970 I heard this story from a couple of the regulars, the drivers mentioned in the article - Joe Cliver and Tommy Dixon - "wild and crazy guys!" "According to them Joe was driving and trying to get Tommy to wake up and take over. "Tommy wasn't responding, so Joe started hitting all the tar-strips and potholes as he could. "That's when the floor of the trailer buckled and they dumped a pallet of dimes!"
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