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Valued Member
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Pillar of the Community
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I would absolutely make that out of searched cents.
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Here's his fireplace:  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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and ... we can see by the jar next to the fireplace that he is saving up for his next project.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
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My old knees are starting to ache just from looking at that first photo.  |
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Showing this to the wife. She has to let me do this.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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With Ikes?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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.....and here's the car he drives.  Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Bedrock of the Community
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Wow... I've seen stuff like this before but it never gets old. Awesome!
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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That Series 62 would need more than the original 331 c.i. engine to cart that load of pennies around!
Would have looked fabulous in silver dimes; the owner would then have to known as a mobile silver stasher!
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm not so sure about that, sel_69l. One box of cents is 2,500 cents. My math says that many cents could easily cover 80 square feet with a generous margin of error. I'm not sure what the surface area of a vehicle like that is but can't imagine it's much more than double that.
So we're talking maybe 35 pounds if we use two boxes. That's probably less than a week's worth of groceries.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I have calculated that just over 50,000 19mm diameter pennies laid hexagonally woud be needed to cover my classic sedan, which is 4.95 metres long. 155 kg of pennies would be needed. That's the equivalent of one fat person. My first postulation without arithmetic was wrong. A 331 cubic inch OHV Caddy engine of 1949 should be easily be able to handle that.  |
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My wife and I plan on doing our bathroom floor like this after I search my hoard.
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