Floor-covering of copper coins

"The epoxy cost more than all of the pennies" gives a clue. Depends what epoxy but it could be pretty durable. Would look a lot better if the coins were on the surface though.

Either that or worn until there is no pattern! I still think it would look better.

I see they're not UK pennies but 1 cent pieces US. A rather attractive effect, I thought, although how scratch-resistant it will be remains to be seen. But you wouldn't want to drop a penny on it; you'd never find it again!

Pah, pennies. Here's nickels!(5)

Thomas Prufer

Beautiful! A bit hard and cold maybe, but lovely.

TW

Hmmm. Interesting. After a career during which I spent some years travelling all over Europe, I now have 2 or 3 coffee jars full of obsolete small change. I've been wondering for years if there was some way to display them as memorabilia.

Of course, they're all different sizes and shapes, so won't tile particularly well.

I also have a large collection of paper money, ditto.

Stick em to a wall as a map of where they came from.

Make a picture out of them? Given you probably have several colours (silver, tarnished brown, bright copper and maybe gold colour) you could maybe even do a sort of painting with them?

Lovely idea, but other than being a reasonably competent landscape photographer, I have all the artistic talent of a dried dog poo.

OTOH, a sort-of paint-by-numbers map of Europe, perhaps? [ponders]

or diamond but that's cheating a bit.

I bet Trump as a gold floor somewhere.

Or, for thread convergence, get your wife to do it :-)

What is it that makes epoxy resins so expensive? I remember being frugal with araldite in the 70's, not much seems to have changed.

Sounds like a good excuse for a TIG setup if you have not already got one ;-)

If the coins were on the surface it would get a lot of muck in the cracks.

I suppose it was some kind of a statement, bit like when a certain pop star had a room decorated with Sinclair tvs that all worked. goodness knows why.

Brian

I think those stories were made up...oh, wait, you mean REAL gold...

Having just repaired something (badly) with gasless MIG I keep thinking it is time for that!

Paper money looks good framed, or under a glass-topped coffee table (if you like such things).

That was the idea.

Not sure what to do with the collection of airline sick bags, tho'.

:o)

Bah! Dyslexia, a 'hallway floor'. Doh. It's getting worse.

Tim W