http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/06/samsung-did-not-try-to-pay-apple-1-billion-in-nickels/ http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/06/samsung-did-not-try-t... N

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/06/samsung-did-not-try-to-pay-apple-1-billion-in-nickels/ http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/06/samsung-did-not-try-t... Nickels may be legal tender in the U.S., but no company is obliged to accept them as payment for a debt of any size, never mind one as large as Samsung's. Besides, as Ken Tindell helpfully tweeted when the story first appeared on the Web, 20 billion nickels at 5 grams each would fill 2,755 18-wheel trucks (maximum legal weight: 80,000 lbs.).