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Here are a few interesting and surprising facts:

Sometime in the 1900s when Scrooge came to the location later known as Duckburg he single-handedly built his first money bin - a wooden structure (U$43 For Old Dime's Sake).

Despite the overwhelming size of the Money Bin structure and the vastness of his wealth, Scrooge has filled all the banks in the land to the brim with much more cash money.

The building is strong enough to withstand any attacks from the primary characters such as the Beagle Boys and Magica de Spell, and from nature such as lightning, cyclones, comets, and meteors.

The stories have had several locations and means for storing Scrooge's money before the Money Bin appeared. Examples: FC0282 The Pixilated Parrot (gold-plated office building), FC0386 Only a Poor Old Man (high-rise building), FC0495 'The Water Tank Bin' (movable Money Bin), WDCS124 'New Management' (money barn #68), and WDCS130 'The Rare Coin' (scanty office).

In WDCS138 'Statues Galore' Scrooge did store his money in a high street office building despite the fact that the Money Bin had indeed been introduced a few months before in WDCS135 'The Money Bin Freezes'.
Therefore it can be speculated that Barks had actually developed the storyline for the statue story some time before he invented the Money Bin...

Barks was never especially precise when showing the Money Bin in its Duckburgian surroundings - sometimes it appears on a hill and sometimes on flat ground. We are told that the address is Killmotor Hill (WDCS135 'The New Money Bin'), and that it was built on the very site of old Fort Duckburg, which was a pioneer stronghold during the Indian wars (U$21 The Money Well).

The structure has been protected by a large number of security measures. Examples: Hidden cannons and an acid moat (WDCS135 'The Money Bin Freezes', a grating and steel doors (U$15 The Second Richest Duck), and a selection of extremely strong powerfields (U$43 For Old Dime's Sake).

The building defies very strong impacts such as being moved (U$15 'Moving Money), tilted (U$51 How Green was My Lettuce), pocket-sized (U$33 Billions in the Hole), and catapulted (U$13 Land Beneath the Ground).

Despite of all his wealth Scrooge's most cherished possession, by his own admission, is the so-called Number One Dime, an old and worn 10 cent coin that is usually kept inside the building in a special glass container.

Scrooge's Money Bin was first mentioned in FC0282 The Pixilated Parrot from 1950 and again in WDCS134 'The Anti-Beagle Cannon' from 1951, but it was first shown in the following story in WDCS135 'The Money Bin Freezes'.