Amazing Geometric Coin Sculptures!!!! TGIF!!!

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THESE ARE SO COOL!

Robert Wechsler is an artist that makes AMAZING sculptures with ordinary COINS!!!

This one is called “The Caryatid” and it’s made of 15,000 newly minted 2014 U.S. pennies!!!! They form a dodecahedral lattice!!

LOOK:

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Here’s a couple other pieces of his:

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This is called “The Mendicant”:

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It’s made of 26,982 pennies!!!!

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Cubes achieved by notching and joining pennies in perfect orientation to one another. Joined at perpendicular angles, the coins create a lattice.

Watch this video:

via Hi-Fructose