How about a floor made of pennies !

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This could be the answer to what to do with all those surplus presidential dollars.

 

Very Cool!

 

That would get expensive , must be at least 60 in a SF ? without doing any math or measuring

 

You could be talking $1.50 - $2.00 per sq. ft.

 

yeh $1.50 per SF or so doing it in pennies ( just for the pennies) dollars would be insanely expensive.

I'd like to see it close-up, it looks good in the photos.

 

+1

 

Imagine to place silver dollar coins on the floor. I guess it may cost around $500 per SF. How about this, $20 gold coins on floor. I guarantee it will be most expensive and only rich people can afford that. The total cost per SF may reach at $25,500.

 

That's great except in the future when you're looking at those uncirculated coins and/or find an error coin, wishing you had wrapped them and held onto them

 

I'm sure some bumhole would break in and steal the floor :|

 

Looks like an electrical shock hazard waiting to happen. See all those high voltage appliances ??? Just add water... POOF !!! Very bad idea.

 

You'd have to have a coat of sealant over it, so shock hazards would be eliminated. If not, within a few months of foot traffic and washings the coins would turn black and then start to oxidize and crumble. A nice basketball court varnish would take care of that.
Guy

 

I vote for a basketball court made of pennies.

 

Here are a couple places that used Silver dollars in decoration / construction:

The wort Hotel Silver Dollar Bar in Wyoming:

"Almost 3,000 U.S. Silver Dollars can be found throughout the Wort Hotel; the most famous collection resides in the Silver Dollar Bar. Minted in 1921, the 2,032 coins were uncirculated at the time of the bar's construction in the late 1940's.
The bar was constructed so that the Silver Dollars would be impossible to remove. Each hole was drilled a fraction smaller than the dollar. The dollars were shrunk with dry ice and pressed and cemented into the wood underneath the black Formica counter to ensure each Silver Dollar would be there forever.
Hundreds of additional Silver Dollars are embedded in countless hotel elements including stained glass, black walnut surfaces, and custom furniture throughout the building."




50,000 Silver Dollar bar in Montana:

 

That is COOL!

 

The Wort Hotel Silver Dollar. I bet there are some top 100 VAM exist in that bar.

 

Can you imagine someone with a loupe looking through the silver dollars? I wonder if any of them could be extracted without too much damage?

 

Extracted without damage, doubtful, but see someone with magnify looking around coins, probably.

 

Looks like the coins may have been polished anyway :|

 

I'm sure that penny floor takes a **** of a lot more time to install than tile !