Have you ever seen hundreds of thousands of pennies in one place?
Maybe. But I bet you have never seen all those one-cent coins stacked into a pyramid!
Here’s info about the World’s Largest Penny Pyramid — past and present…
The Previous Record
The previous Guinness World Record Penny Pyramid took over 300 hours to build and consisted of thousands of dollars of one-cent coins.
Imagine stacking all those pennies up like that!
I bet his fingers were pretty tired after building this Penny Pyramid:
The Penny Pyramid in the above video contains over 289,000 pennies (1 ton of pennies) and can potentially grow to a whopping 500,000 pennies!
This pyramid was built for a good cause. Mr. Carlos Conde is among the 50,000 who died in 2006 of colorectal cancer. This Penny Pyramid is devoted to bringing awareness to getting colorectal cancer screenings — which everybody should have done by age 50, if not before based on family history and other factors. (Here’s my experience getting a colonoscopy.)
By the way, I have to wonder if any of those hundreds of thousands of pennies just happen to be among the several rare or scarce Lincoln cents which collectors and investors love. Hmm… imagine how long it would take to check all those pennies.
The Current Record
As of 2019, there’s a new World Record for the largest Penny Pyramid!
It consists of 1,030,315 pennies, weighs 6,360 lbs, and took 3 years to make.
No glue was used — the pennies are simply balanced on top of each other. It measures 65 stacks across by 65 stacks back by 65 stacks high. Each stack contains 11 pennies.
So… that means this Penny Pyramid cost $10,303.15 to build!
This Guiness World Record Penny Pyramid was built entirely by one person — Cory Nielsen (aka Penny Building Fool) from Phoenix, Arizona. It beats the previous record which used 100 people and was built in Lithuania.
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