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New Member
United States
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A tattoo artist in Pittsburgh glued 250K in pennies to her floor as tile!! She got them at the local bank. I got a little sick when I saw the video on yahoo.
I wonder what the collector value of that floor really is! Imagine, she could literally have a penny worth hundreds or thousands of dollars GLUED TO THE FLOOR!!
I think it is amazingly cool, if they had been searched first! I would have donated a few hundred of the 1957d wheat pennies I have!!
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Pillar of the Community
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I've seen this before. The cents probably have not been searched, but as you'll read in the CRH thread, anything actually valuable is few and far in between. There might some stuff like a 1960 SD, but there won't be anything like as 09S VDB or 55DD.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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$2500 + glue & labor seems pricey for a floor. Each to their own.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2757 Posts |
depends on how many square feet.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't know why, but after viewing this post, the contractor in me reached for the calculator to figure the square footage of floor coverage, and knowing that the Lincoln Cent is 3/4" in diameter, concluded that 250,000 Lincoln Cents would cover only 976.5625 Square Feet at a cost of $2.56 per Sq./Ft. plus labor & adhesive... 12" wide x .75" = 16 cents per lineal foot 16 cents wide x 16 cents deep = 256 cents per sq/ft 250,000 divided by 256 = 976.5625 sq/ft. [curious to see if anyone comes up with a different answer] |
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Valued Member
United States
492 Posts |
BK, did you stagger each other row, or did you calculate it with each row square to the next? Staggering them would make for more complete coverage, but I would think that it would cut down on the square footage considerably.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1812 Posts |
The above calculation was each coin touching edge to edge where 16 coins would equal 12 inches. Placing a space between the coins would require an excellent trained eye to keep everything uniform, and very time consuming if they used some type of hand made or manufactured spacer (like those used for ceramic tile), but it would increase the sq/ft coverage..
I just re-read your post on them being staggered or square, and calculated the pattern square... Installing then staggered would give less square footage (and look nicer), I would have to play around with the number of stagged coins per sq/ft, but not tonight ☺
Edited by Broken-Coin
11/10/2012 11:31 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3640 Posts |
That's one big floor. Almost 100X100 ft.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have to admit I was about to do a renovation to my bathroom floor--and install some tile I really loved, that was a little outrageously priced. I'd never suspect a penny floor to look this cool! I think I might just do this!
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Edited by bobbyhelmet
11/11/2012 5:29 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I like it. I wonder what they used to cover the coins so they wouldn't come up in time. I am sure they make some type of covering that lasts years and won't wear down much over time that will keep the coins protected from the elements or coming up off of the floor in time. I am not a contractor so I have no idea about what building materials are out there for what purposes but I would think there would have to be something out there that would be used for this
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1193 Posts |
Probably have to mop with verdicare lol!
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2838 Posts |
It does look pretty good and it would last for years. Would be hard to find your loose change if you dropped it on the floor though!
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Valued Member
United States
207 Posts |
Just type penny floor into youtube. There are actually quite a few of them. How crazy is it that between all of these floors someone could live their whole lives struggling paycheck to paycheck while stepping on a 43 copper daily in their own kitchen. Oh and imagine all of the long drunken nights of crawling around with a magnifying glass if a friend of yours actually had one of these floors. I can just picture him telling his friends... "yeah, every time my crazy friend Kris comes over he crawls around staring at my floor for hours. I caught him trying to pry up a corner once and he kept screaming '1909 S!, 1909 S!, it's red! I have to check for the VDB!'"
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Valued Member
United States
271 Posts |
I've considered doing something like this on the kitchen counters in our home as well as the floor in our small bathroom. As a roll searcher, I would promise that none of the cents would have any special collectable qualities. :)
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