Stories have surfaced the internet claiming
Samsung was paying its $1billion fine to Apple in nickels, but there is not
truth to the stories. A Mexican website had reported that Samsung was
going to pay the fine cheekily arriving at the doorstep of Apple’s HQ with 30
dump trucks full of nickels (5 cent coins).
Reported by website Snopes, the physical
reality of doing this would mean Samsung would have to get its hands on every
nickel produced by the U.S. Mint in the last several decades (20 billion of
them) and actually 2,755 trucks as opposed to 30 – each capable of lugging 40
tonnes’ worth of coin.
Also according to US Treasury laws, Apple had a
legal right refuse to make the transaction if Samsung had indeed attempted to
pay with coins.
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