spare change mister?

Police officers on Friday dug up some unusual backyard buried treasure --about three million stolen nickels that never made it to the Federal Reserve in New Orleans.

Miami-Dade police came across the nicked nickels, worth about $180,000, at a home in the Redlands area of southwest Miami-Dade. They were still in Federal Reserve bags, in a wooden box covered with a thick plastic tarp and buried about four feet deep.
"We think most of them are there," said Judy Orihuela, spokeswoman for the FBI, which is investigating the theft. "There's probably going to be a few missing."
The nickel caper began on Dec. 17 when truck driver Angel Ricardo Mendoza picked up the coins at the Federal Reserve facility in New Jersey.
Mendoza, who worked for a private trucking contractor, vanished, as did the 45,000 pounds of silvery loot. A few days later, the truck and trailer turned up at a Fort Pierce truck stop, but he and the nickels were gone.