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Copper Catcher
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 Posted - 05/05/2010 : 16:50:44
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The Standard Grill in New York’s Standard Hotel covered their floor with a mosaic of thousands of pennies
Made by Matt Groener in Oregon $31.11 worth of pennies (3111 pennies), 51 wide by 61 tall), based on a picture of Lincoln taken in 1864.
He used a piece of thin piece of luan board painted gloss black. The wood grain shows up very well between the pennies in person. He then found that regular old wood glue stuck the pennies extremely well to the backer board. He had to pry up a couple with a chisel!
In the same vein of forced imperfection, there is a single 1943 steel penny in the bottom right corner.
He had hoped to use one penny from each year of Lincoln pennies (1909-2009). Most of the darkest pennies are “Wheat”pennies prior to 1958, and none of them were “cleaned” or “darkened”. He simply used his “eye” to gauge the correct color and picked from literally thousands of pennies to get the right blend. (He purchased almost $150 in pennies for his “palette”).
Framed and with a sturdy plywood backer, it weighs about 78 pounds. He chose to frame w/o glass as it was too distracting from the shimmer of the pennies themselves.
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twentybux
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 05/07/2010 : 22:16:01
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| Per the hotel floor, any idea how many pennies they used? |
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JWRAY
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 05/07/2010 : 22:39:17
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Nice stuff! I recently flew on continental airlines and there was a cool ad with the Taj Mahal made of pennies, but I forgot to take the magazine.
Check this stuff out.
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Neckro
1000+ Penny Miser Member
Saudi Arabia
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Posted - 05/07/2010 : 22:43:10
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| 78lbs for that picture. I highly doubt that. |
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Copper Catcher
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USA
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Posted - 05/08/2010 : 07:08:35
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| Not sure how many used in hotel... |
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uthminsta
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/08/2010 : 11:10:11
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Originally posted by Neckro
78lbs for that picture. I highly doubt that.
Right! That's what I was thinking. If it's 3111 cents, even if they're all copper (which they're not), it wouldn't weigh much over 20 pounds, right? Then the frame and stuff... probably doesn't add 50 plus pounds. Hmmmmm... |
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