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Pete2226 Pillar of the Community United States 3330 Posts	Posted 07/09/2015 5:14 pm http://archaeology.org/news/3469-15...ins-treasury Report this Post to the Staff

thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 07/10/2015 05:50 am I have a vague inkling regarding the weight. My collection of 13,000+ and 7,000+ spares I approximate is about 2 metric tons, taking an average of 10gr per coin. Which is why they are stored on a concrete base ground-floor and not in the attic! Report this Post to the Staff
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 07/10/2015 10:49 pm I think 2 metric ton is not right. 20,000 x 10 grams = 200,000 grams = 200 kg. This would be 0.2 tons. But still, it's quite heavy! My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 07/11/2015 04:10 am Yes you're quite right. I was brought up in the pounds, shillings and pence era and I've never been fully metriculated! Edited by thai-vic 07/11/2015 04:11 am Report this Post to the Staff
Pete2226 Pillar of the Community United States 3330 Posts	Posted 07/11/2015 06:35 am Well, the article did mention that the floor of the attic was large Cyprus logs...seems to me that the author is thinking about and allowing for the weight. Quote: Very little of the Parthenon's attic still exists, but estimates suggest that it was 62 feet wide by 164 long, with a floor made of thick beams of wood from cypress trees. There are also remnants of a utilitarian staircase that could have been used to move money to and from the attic, where coins could have been spread across the floor space to distribute their weight. Report this Post to the Staff
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