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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
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1Make a stack of 10 pennies. Put your palm around them, to make sure that they are stacked evenly on top of each other.
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2Create a triad and carefully place it on top of the stack of ten pennies.Advertisement
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3Place another triad on top of the previous triad. Continue adding triads until you get the height you want.
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4Repeat the above to build another bridge foundation, placing it close to the first foundation.
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5Connect the bridge by adding a penny at a time, on each end, leading up to center following the picture as a guide.
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6Expand 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.
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7Expand 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.
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8Finished.
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Community Q&A
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QuestionWill this only work for pennies?Gabriel GalarzaCommunity AnswerNo, 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.⧼thumbs_response⧽
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Things You'll Need
- Pennies
- Sturdy table
- A steady hand
References
- http://www.fincher.org/CoinStacking/HowTo.shtml Source of this article. Used with permission.
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