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Valued Member
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IF Everyone On This Coin Forum Exactly 39.400 People Could Purchase 2 2016 $25 Boxes That is 2500 pennies x 2 = 5000 Pennies per person 5000 Pennies x 39.400 People That Is Exactly 197 Million Pennies As A average of 2.2 billion pennies produced each year We Will have A litle more then 9 % of all 2016 pennies .
Not saying For Yall To Actually Try This I was Just Trying to put that to your attention
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Pillar of the Community
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Whoa. That's an ambitious project. Keep in mind that a large portion of those 39,400 members just came to ask one question and then left. Still, though, it's an interesting idea.
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And then what? Dump them in the ocean in protest of the continued existence of the cent?  One math adjustment... first of all there have been over 7B US cents minted this year and the presses haven't cooled of yet. Yep, that's approximately 1 cent for every person on the planet. Wow. 174M would only be 2.8% of 7B. Let's say the dust settles at 7.5B. To get 10% (750M cents) in the hands of CCF members, each of the 39,400 members would have to purchase about 19k cents. Or almost 8 boxes each. Quote:
Not saying For Yall To Actually Try This I was Just Trying to put that to your attention Whadya mean "y'all"? Hey, if I'm buying 8 boxes of ballast for my safe, you're doing it with me! |
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Quote: And then what? Dump them in the ocean in protest of the continued existence of the cent? Harsh!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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With all those bricks of cents, we could probably build a CCF community center together!
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Pillar of the Community
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And then what? Dump them in the ocean in protest of the continued existence of the cent?  I think I have a little coffee in my nose now. Thanks for that celtic  |
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And then what? Dump them in the ocean in protest of the continued existence of the cent? What and have the environmentalists after us for killing all the fish from zinc poisoning as they corrode. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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And then what? Dump them in the ocean in protest of the continued existence of the cent? This strategy has already been done by the Sons of Liberty on December 16, 1773. Edited by TypeCoin971793
11/04/2015 11:39 am
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With all those bricks of cents, we could probably build a CCF community center together! Even better. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I must say I like Atlas's idea.
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Will this community center have an air hockey table?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am sure there is room for both. |
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United States
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Don't forget Table tennis. I'm actually intrigued on the idea of a house or center of pennies. Of course we can't use zincolns unless we want it to fall down in a couple years HAHAHA. I'm wondering what it would take to create something like that. Penny floors and Dollar sofas too http://www.designrulz.com/product-d...using-coins/Edited by tweak800
11/05/2015 1:14 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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With 78,800 bricks of cents at 8.5" x 4" x 3.25" a box, you'd have a solid 5,038.97 cubic feet, roughly a cube 17.14 feet on each side. With that many bricks, you could have a good sized house (or community center).
Weight, however, would be an issue. With 78,800 bricks weighing about 18 pounds each, you'd be looking at 709.2 tons of 2016 cents. Let's hope we're not building on some soft land.
Likewise, cost of materials for just the bricks comes out to $1,970,000, making a pricey venture as well.
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Posted 11/03/2015 11:33 pm
