Would Scrooge exchange his money??

lgiver@postoffice.pacbell.net lgiver at postoffice.pacbell.net
Tue Feb 4 09:18:14 CET 2003


People are speculating whether Scrooge would exchange his beloved money.
Based on his record, I expect he would.  Despite his sentimental 
attachment to
his 3 cubic acres of coins and greenbacks, there are several Barks 
stories in
which he exchanged the entire 3 cubic acres for large denomination bills to
have a smaller volume of money to safeguard, and once into silver dollars.
Presumably he had no sentimental attachment to the large bills or the silver
dollars.   Here are some of the stories:

            US #3 (FC #495) second story,  Sept. 1953, "Water Tank Tryout"
            aka "The Round Money Bin".  It took the bank 3 months to convert
            his 3 cubic acres into $10,000 bills, which Scrooge stored 
in an old
            water tank.  His #1 dime was his only coin left; this was 
the first
            story with the #1 dime.

            US #4, Dec. 1953, "Menehune Mystery" aka "Hawaiian Hideaway".
            Scrooge changed his 3 cubic acres into $1,000,000 bills 
which were
            put into cans for the trip to a small island near Hawaii.

            US #27, Sept. 1959, "The Money Champ".  Challenged by Glomgold,
            he and Scrooge convert the money in their bins and all their 
business
            investments into silver dollars to be piled up and measured 
at the
            Duckburg airport.

            US #39, second story, Sept. 1962, "Tricky Experiment".  Again
            Scrooge changed all his money into $1,000,000 bills to put 
them into
            another spherical tank.

            US #51, Aug. 1964, "How Green was my Lettuce".  Because of
            gophers undermining the foundation of his money bin, Scrooge has
            to lighten the load, and exchanges all his coins for bales 
of large
            denomination greenbacks.   On page 6, panel 5, there is a 
stack of
            about 32 bales.  The 2 bales in the foreground of panel 3 on 
page 6
            are each labeled $9,000,000,000,000,000.  If all 32 bales 
have this
            same amount, he has $288,000,000,000,000,000 in his bin.

    Any other stories to add to this list, by Barks or others?
                                Best wishes,
                                                Larry Giver




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