That court case provides some additional detail that aligns with info from other sources about how the money moved on it's way to Cooper. It doesn't mention any reshuffling of the money. Note that it was very detailed about who touched the money, when. It's interesting it doesn't mention details from the vault to any place it was repackaged, if indeed that happpened:
(*832 and *833 are maybe links to other references? not sure yet)

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Plaintiff's Seattle ground personnel were notified of the hijacking and, further, received *833 home office authorization to procure the money and parachutes demanded by Cooper. In order to obtain the $200,000 in cash, arrangements were made with Seattle First National Bank, through its airport branch.

The money was taken from the vault of the bank's downtown facility, and transported to the airport by bank personnel and the Seattle police. The release of cash funds after normal banking hours resulted in a debit to plaintiff's account which was repaid by a transfer credit on the next banking day.

Mr. William C. Grinnell, an officer of Seattle First National Bank, arrived at the Seattle airport at approximately 5 p. m. with the money. He first proceeded to the airport branch of the bank to pick up the branch manager, who then accompanied Mr. Grinnell to plaintiff's air freight terminal, a "premises" of plaintiff insured within the meaning of the subject insurance policy.

An authorized official of plaintiff gave a receipt for the $200,000 while it was inside the terminal. Mr. Grinnell transferred possession of the $200,000 to Captain Elwood M. Lee, a Northwest official designated to transport the money to the hijacked airplane, which had landed at the Seattle airport and was parked at the end of a runway.

Captain Lee proceeded to the airplane in an automobile and delivered the money to Stewardess Tina Larson, who carried the money into the airplane and surrendered direct physical custody of it to the hijacker.

Upon receipt thereof, Cooper allowed the passengers to leave the airplane. Stewardess Larson also delivered the parachutes and other items to Cooper, who was still in the rear cabin of the aircraft. At that time, he allowed two other stewardesses to leave the airplane. Cooper, Stewardess Larson, and the cockpit crew of three men remained on board.

Did WSHM do any work on the money story? Did they say how the money was prepared for Cooper?

Still waiting for Cooper Royalty with info to speak!

Yeah, once we mentally review all the things that don't make sense about all the details of the money, from bank to being found on the Columbia, it sure sounds complicated.

There's really, literally, no single fact in that chain of events that everyone agrees on.

We can't even agree whether Cooper got 9998 bills or 10000 bills!

I've discovered something interesting

1) The FBI mistyped a serial in the serial list.
2) There is at least one consecutive serial non-star note serial pair

fbi file 55 page 162
3rd grouping of chars for serial
row 53 and 54 (there are 60 rows, so can count up from the bottom)

The typing on the FBI page is clearly
G03 072 38CB 69
G03 072 381B 69

the 38CB is not legal for a serial. Instead, it should be 380B
I checked this at the check six website. He agrees that 380B is correct
I used these there, both checked out okay. So checksix must have made a similar determination.
G03072380B 69
G03072381B 69

If you zoom into the attached image, you can see the 38CB clearly. It's near the bottom, 3rd grouping.
The attachment is a png. lossless. The fbi pdf only had 72dpi, but you can clearly see the C if you zoom in enough.
The C has a clear serif. It is not a 0 with the right side missing from the copy.
There are nearby 0's you can look at to compare. There are no other C's on that page, but there are are C's on other pages (like for instance the 50C series year cases)


it would be nice if someone reviewed, this and agreed with my two assessments:
1) The FBI mistyped at least one serial
2) There is at least one consecutive non-star note serial pair in the ransom list.

consecutive serials, whether star or non-star, are interesting because it gives some clues about how the bank got the bills. And then how the bills were randomized, if some of them were non-random to start with, at some point in time.

EDIT: you may have to download the file, and click on it to use a different viewing tool, that allows you to zoom more than the default viewer this website causes. You should use a tool that allows you to zoom as much as you want.

EDIT: another theory would be that the C was a mistype, and that assuming it's supposed to be a 0 is incorrect, because it's unlikely there were non-star consecutive serial numbers and that one "just happened" to be on the one with consecutive serials.

SO: it would mean there is a serial with one digit, that could be 0, 2-9
i.e. it could be any of 9 other serials (1 is already taken)

that's the more likely explanation here. (with the fbi sorting the mistyped C before 1 in this case)

Didn’t the FBI have to break up the bundles in order to record the serial numbers? How would they have recorded the serial numbers if the money went straight from the vault to the plane?

Weren't the serial numbers already pre-recorded from when the bank first put the 'emergency stash' together, before Cooper even happened?

It's my understanding that the serial numbers of all of the ransom bills - all $250K - were pre-recorded. However, there is some documentation that I have seen saying the FBI wanted the stacks of the bills to "look random" as if they were hastily put together at the last minute. Apparently, they wanted to fool Cooper into thinking that they hadn't been counted.

Here is another FBI serial list snapshot that is subject to interpretation

The 4th serial down. The 3rd col has a unknown 3rd char.
Note that it looks different than the 6 two rows above. So it dosn't seem to be a six
and it also doesn't seem to be an 8

it seems to be off-center..shifted right a bit.
I was matching it against 2 different Euro currency symbols, but that's not correct.
I wonder if this was a typo on whatever typewriter or keypunch the fbi was using.

What's your opinion on the 4th serial ??
K11 386 35?A 69

check six doesn't pass it if a 6
check six does pass it if a 8

100% it's an 8

yeah, interesting with mechanical printers and typing back then, you could easily get something where a character is misspaced and "half-printed"

geez, compared to today, it's like looking at something someone painted on a cave wall and trying to decipher the meaning.

The biggest single collector of DB Cooper bills is Ethan Thomaston from Southern Coin & Collectibles in Hoover, Alabama

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from 2018 article:
Thomaston’s five-year purchasing history acquiring many of the notes began when a ransom note he purchased from another dealer and put on his website triggered a phone call from Ingram’s father asking if he wanted to buy additional notes.

Pics of his display collection attached. Apparently in his store and sometimes brought to collectors conventions?