Tin with paper money and coins
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This burned paper currency and tin of melted coins were recovered from the damaged offices in the Pentagon.
label: Description
content: Context: When the hijacked airplane was crashed into the Pentagon, the jet fuel ignited a huge fire. The heat from the blaze was so intense that it melted coins stored in this tin on an office worker’s desk.
label: Description
content: The Pentagon houses over 23,000 civilian and military employees, and is the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense. In the Pentagon attack, 125 employees were killed and some 140 more were injured.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: recovered
content: United States: Virginia, Pentagon
title: label: Title
content: Tin with paper money and coins
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the Pentagon
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0279.16
label: accession number
content: 2002.0279
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0279.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin container, fused
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 160 mm x 113 mm x 30 mm; 6 5/16 in x 4 7/16 in x 1 3/16 in