Working on world record, supposedly done. The patterns are just the difference between a more worn penny, and right from the mint.
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Million penny pyramid
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Million penny pyramid
by everything » Tue Jun 18, 2019 7:31 pm
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by aloneibreak » Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:29 pm
love the wall of boxes around him too
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by hobo finds » Wed Jun 19, 2019 5:08 am
Wow. 1,030,315 cents. Lets hope his credit union will take them back for face value, Constar would be a big hit if he has to go that way.
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by TXSTARFIRE » Wed Jun 19, 2019 9:21 am
7035 lb if all copper
5673 lb if all zinc
5946 lb 20 pct copper
with no wear
5673 lb if all zinc
5946 lb 20 pct copper
with no wear
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by Recyclersteve » Wed Jun 19, 2019 9:04 pm
6,360# is the actual weight per the video.
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by JadeDragon » Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:22 pm
I can't quite beat him with Canadian cents nor am I willing to spend years stacking the pennies to do it. Nice collection though. Someone should sell him a Ryedale.
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by everything » Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:41 am
The video and story is good, 20 hours a week for 3 years. Good point about the ryedale, wonder if he filtered out the wheats, maybe found anything good, etc. Maybe someone could comment on his youtube video and see if he's been to realcent yet. I'm thinking he's so tired of the penny by now..
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by TXSTARFIRE » Thu Jun 20, 2019 9:07 am
I guess I should have watched the video! He must have a pretty good percentage of copper with that weight.
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by Chief » Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:57 pm
WOW! That was an awesome story/video. Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by Recyclersteve » Thu Jun 20, 2019 11:28 pm
JadeDragon wrote: Someone should sell him a Ryedale.
My thoughts exactly!
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by Recyclersteve » Thu Jun 20, 2019 11:33 pm
everything wrote: wonder if he filtered out the wheats
There was a mention that all the coins had to be the same, so he said he had to filter out Canadian and foreign coins to qualify for the world record.
That said, if he had a few Canadian pennies hiding in the middle of the pyramid, who would even notice? I feel a bit sorry for the person from Guinness who has to authenticate this. I'm sure they aren't counting all the coins, but it must be a pain to even count how many rows and columns there are.
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by Cu Penny Hoarder » Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:11 am
Cool.
He was smart enough to build that pyramid on a concrete floor/slab.
Looks like the dark regions are copper pennies and the shiny regions are newer zinc pennies.
He was smart enough to build that pyramid on a concrete floor/slab.
Looks like the dark regions are copper pennies and the shiny regions are newer zinc pennies.
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by everything » Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:39 pm
He said somewhere, when he got boxes that were all just brand new pennies, he saved those for the design work.
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Re: Million penny pyramid
by 68Camaro » Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:44 pm
Recyclersteve wrote:everything wrote: wonder if he filtered out the wheats
There was a mention that all the coins had to be the same, so he said he had to filter out Canadian and foreign coins to qualify for the world record.
That said, if he had a few Canadian pennies hiding in the middle of the pyramid, who would even notice? I feel a bit sorry for the person from Guinness who has to authenticate this. I'm sure they aren't counting all the coins, but it must be a pain to even count how many rows and columns there are.
The photographic evidence combined with the geometry would make it easy to verify count with a spreadsheet calculation.
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