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LAKE MARY, Fla., May 11 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said a suspicious package found outside a church and detonated by a bomb squad turned out to contain more than $2,500 in cash.
The Seminole County Sheriff's Office bomb squad said a member of Master's Touch International Church, near Lake Mary, found a 40-pound cardboard box outside of the facility at 11 a.m. Saturday and brought it to a nearby fire station, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported.
The bomb squad was called in and was unable to determine the contents of the box, labeled "For Pastor Nick," with the use of an X-ray.
"It didn't look normal," sheriff's spokeswoman Kim Cannaday said. "That's all we knew."
The box was detonated by the bomb squad and they then discovered it had contained $2,500 to $2,700 in paper money and several rolls of silver dollars.
Cannaday said the U.S. Treasury will replace the damaged money.
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