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Valued Member
United States
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Oh, by the way, that wall is awesome!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Ever wonder how many 09S VDB's, 14D's, etc are there?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
Oh you're a quick one Scooby  That was a great one! When I saw the floor, which I love the look of it by the way, loving pennies and copper in genral, I had a hilarious image flash through my head of people down on hands and knees, nose to the floor, looking through loops at each of the Lincolns  |
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Valued Member
United States
408 Posts |
I love the wall. Wonder how many coins are on it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1424 Posts |
It's actually pretty nice looking even if you aren't a coin collector....I wonder how many 1995DDO and 1999WAM's are in there?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1283 Posts |
I've seen that before, and I agree it's really cool. I think that would be an awesome idea for flooring in a coin shop. Even better if you do it using bags of "Completely UNSEARCHED WHEATS!" on ebay, of which there is a plethora. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
One problem I see with this floor design for the coin collector. Say you are sorting through some wheat cents and drop them all over the floor. You are going to have a tough time finding them all.
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Valued Member
United States
137 Posts |
Nominally, probably about five dollars in pennies.
Now if there is an 09S VDB in XF in that particular square foot...
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Valued Member
United States
487 Posts |
I would think the cost of installation would be higher than the cost of the cents.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
757 Posts |
aye. pennies would be a MUCH cheaper material than regular tile.
i'd upcharge the customer for the price of copper though.
not sure what sort of mortar to use with copper though...hmm. I guess you'd just use normal thinset. probably you could just glue it and it'd be fine.
if/when I become a millionaire, I want a floor like that one, but made of morgans.
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Pillar of the Community
Thailand
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I like the flooring but I'm positive you wouldn't get away with that idea here (if using Thai coins). It would almost certainly be looked on as an act of lese-majeste and earn you up to a fifteen year stay at the Bangkok Hilton (Bangkwang Prison)!
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Valued Member
United States
327 Posts |
I can't begin to imagine how time consuming it would be to create something like this. Even the floor; those cents are spaced out perfectly. Insane. I showed my wife. She has been wanting to replace our kitchen floor for some time. I also have buckets of Pre 82 copper in the shop. I say let's do it! :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I showed my wife. She has been wanting to replace our kitchen floor for some time. I also have buckets of Pre 82 copper in the shop. I say let's do it! :)  If I were to suggest this to my wife, it would definitely earn me "the look". You know the look I'm talking about...the one that says, "You can't be serious!" |
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United States
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Years ago I worked for my uncle. He was building a modern home for a German couple that wanted the house and ALL the rooms to be round/rounded. They also wanted the garage floor, drive-way, front walk way, and front entrance way to be made of US coins! After concrete went down, we built a frame and layed out mostly pennies & nickles, some dimes and quarters, and placed a few halves and dollars here and there. Then we mixed and poured on the epoxy.....buckets of the stuff! The walk way and front entrance turned out so slick that they decided not to do the drive way and garage. |
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Posted 01/02/2011 10:27 am
