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Robert Wechsler's geometric penny forms

KurisuKurisu Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited July 3, 2024 5:58PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Never heard of him before, seems pretty focused on the putting pennies together thing...Interesting hobby? Talent? Art?

Robert Wechsler is an Artist-In-Residence at Olin College of Engineering working primarily with the American penny, precisely notching and joining the coins to create geometric forms.
https://www.youtube.com/@wechslerart

He said he'd been working on this one for 7 years!!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xnY4Jg6q-IU

No Glue No Welds...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l7WtMmICOc

Coins are Neato!

"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,335 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I dont understand what he's actually creating here. Sheets of cents?

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 4, 2024 4:33AM

    @DCW said:
    I dont understand what he's actually creating here. Sheets of cents?

    Maybe his circular bike at $6000 makes more sense, maybe not.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 6,896 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Resistance is futile.


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