Some tivia about the copper weight of the Statue of liberty...

Gemini

I happened upon a site that listed statistics for the Statue of Liberty while looking up the poem "The New Collosus" by poetess Emma Lazerus..

One of the statistics given was the total weight of the copper used in making the statue.

This is the strange and coincidental part that hit me...

The weight given for the copper used in the Statue of Liberty is 179,200 pounds....look at this number good...does this remind you of anything?....

Sure you knew that the very first four numbers 1792 was the year that our own Mint began its operations to produce our first coins with of course a female image emblematic of Liberty... kind of neat huh...

So if you ever wind up on Jeopardy or are stopped by Jay Leno in the street or want to amaze your friends you will never forget this bit of trivia as long as you remain a student of coins.

MadMarty

Let's see, scrap copper today was 57 cents a pound, times 179,200= an easy $102,144. Think anybody would notice if it was missing???

coppercoins

Wow! That's 26,700,800 copper based cents worth of metal!

Conder101

Or enough copper for 1,301,208,800 copper plated zincolns.

Cam40

LOL. As I read this post, the obvious questions were answered.lol 26 million 7 hundred thousand and 8 hundred copper pennies.Or if post 1982 cents were used...1 billion 3 hundred and 1 million 2 hundred and 8 thiousand 8 hundred cents.Man That leave an awful lot of zinc left over......Theres the next question.lol
How much zinc is left over...Or did you count that total coin weight and not true copper weight...

..like 99 billion pounds of zinc?

MrKelso

<< <i>LOL. As I read this post, the obvious questions were answered.lol 26 million 7 hundred thousand and 8 hundred copper pennies.Or if post 1982 cents were used...1 billion 3 hundred and 1 million 2 hundred and 8 thiousand 8 hundred cents.Man That leave an awful lot of zinc left over......Theres the next question.lol
How much zinc is left over...Or did you count that total coin weight and not true copper weight...

..like 99 billion pounds of zinc? >>



now if you crush all that zinc up into a fine digestable powder how many zinc tablets can you get at 500 mg each?

Conder101

I used the actual copper weight for the zincoln .0625 grams of copper per cent. So you would need 6,988,800 pounds of zinc to go with the copper from the statue.

pontiacinf

marty ill help ya drag it to the scrap yard

MadMarty

Let's replace the copper with plastic. Now the question is, how much copper has worn off due to acid rain, ect...

MrKelso

<< <i>Let's replace the copper with plastic. Now the question is, how much copper has worn off due to acid rain, ect... >>



I think it was treated in 1976 during the renovation so that corrosion wouldn't bother it for a very long time. But remember the urine stain on the face from the workers?

Gemini

Boy this is getting technical..

Okay you math whizzes how many rubber erasers would it take to shine her up?...

bonus question:
How many workers would get vertigo from getting rid of the verdigris ?...