[1stPickSites] (11/27/06) Pennies - Pictures of Pennies

Pennies - Pictures of Pennies 

http://www.fincher.org/Misc/Pennies/

Today's site, is simply photos of pennies. Before Readers dismiss
this as plumbing new depths of dull, a quick dekko will reveal
that these are truly amazing constructions.  With an estimated
eleven billion pennies out of circulation in the U.S., every
household should have enough to try this at home.

"This page is a collection of pictures from a talk I gave while a
Civil Engineer at Texas Tech University in 1980. Our senior year
we practiced
giving technical presentations. This was mine. ... All stacks of
pennies were done without any glue. Only the weight of the
pennies provides the
support." - from the website

The website features more than two dozen images, with brief
comments, of "structures" composed entirely of pennies. A link to
visitors'
contributions to this admittedly "small niche" interest,
spotlights similar astonishing constructions, some using European
coins. 

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