by Narrator » Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:47 am
ASHLIE could pretty quickly tabulate and cross-tab all the public information, though specifics about money transfer obviously were not available to the general public.
Thanks to the small amount of tallow used in the creation of bills -- and not knowing precisely whether Roland had mixed the tallowill with regular tallow -- the number of bills that could have been printed was highly variable. At a maximum, with some clever deduction and production figures calculated, it could be as high as 1,000,000 notes -- that's 10,000 straps, or 1,000 bricks. If it was that high, that would be difficult to move.
From surveillance camera footage around the mint, there were generally a set departure time for a number of armored trucks and armored train cars simultaneously, with most of them headed to local banks for distribution -- or the airport to send bills to other towns and cities. Roland had picked a good time; the new five-pound notes were getting ready to be shipped out, so there was quite a lot of activity recently in and out of the mint.
It was likely that the Will-notes, assuming they were finished, would be out in the next shipment, which would mean they were currently somewhere in the facility -- a facility not on any public security camera or street view things, much to Ashlie's frustration. Barbed-wire, security cameras, the whole works. Not that it was off limits mind you; there was a reception and guest parking and tours and everything -- but they didn't want robbers casing the place electronically.