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Walked into a new lunch spot and saw this hanging on the wall.
Thought I'd share it with ya.

hags

Thanks for sharing!

Is that on a mirror or a window? Reminds me of this poster. You could lay a sheet of transparent acrylic on top of the poster and use it as a guide to glue the pennies.

www.pennyportrait.com

Is that Abe Lincoln? Very impressive job! Just answered my own question- of course it is Abe Lincoln.

natsb88 wrote:Is that on a mirror or a window? Reminds me of this poster. You could lay a sheet of transparent acrylic on top of the poster and use it as a guide to glue the pennies.

http://www.pennyportrait.com

Ha, nice find!
The artist used two sheets of clear plastic and it looked like one or both were vacuum formed to the pennies so each coin sat in it's own recess. I didn't notice any glue. The double sided clear plastic portrait was hanging in an interior window in the sandwich shop so you could see both sides of the coins. They had a sign proclaiming the "artwork" used all the pennies from the Lincoln penny years and the name of the local artist who created it. The sign said they did use a 1914-D, but I couldn't locate it to see what shape it was in. They also stated the 1909-S VDB wasn't used because the coin cost $1,000. I count more coins in the one I took a picture of compared to the penny portrait from your link, but it looks so close I'd bet the "artist" used that poster to "create" her masterpiece.

Thanks for the link, hags

Here is another creative use of small denomination coins. This time from the UK.

MUTiger


https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/father-son-team-lay-garage-floor-33700-shiny-2p-coins-152238730.html

Cleaning them with Coke to make them shine!