Coin stacking can be a fun hobby for everyone. Break open the penny jar and make your coin stacking masterpiece! There's not much you can buy with a penny these days, but you sure could make a great penny bridge.

Steps

  1. 1
    Make a stack of 10 pennies. Put your palm around them, to make sure that they are stacked evenly on top of each other.
  2. 2
    Create a triad and carefully place it on top of the stack of ten pennies.
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  3. 3
    Place another triad on top of the previous triad. Continue adding triads until you get the height you want.
  4. 4
    Repeat the above to build another bridge foundation, placing it close to the first foundation.
  5. 5
    Connect the bridge by adding a penny at a time, on each end, leading up to center following the picture as a guide.
  6. 6
    Expand on the bridge by starting over and putting an extra triad on top of each stack. This technique will create a bridge the width of 2 pennies, as seen in the photo.
  7. 7
    Expand again to a 3 penny wide bridge. To do the penny bridge with a width of 3 pennies, do the same thing that you did for the 2 penny wide, except you put 3 pennies in the middle. With making the bridges with a larger span, put as many triads as there are pennies wide. Next, just fill up all the "spaces" between the triads, and keep going.
  8. 8
    Finished.
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Community Q&A

  • Question
    Will this only work for pennies?
    Gabriel Galarza
    Gabriel Galarza
    Community Answer
    No, it should work with any coin; just make sure that they are the same size.
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Warnings

  • Slowly add each penny, cupping it with your hand, to make sure it is straight and will not lean over or collapse.
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Things You'll Need

  • Pennies
  • Sturdy table
  • A steady hand

References

  1. http://www.fincher.org/CoinStacking/HowTo.shtml Source of this article. Used with permission.

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