Morgans around the world...Literally
Hickory
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It’s Friday afternoon at work, so I whip out the calculator and came up with this. The Earth is 29,901.55 miles circumference at the equator. If you laid down Morgan dollars side by side, it would take $1,051,848,484 dollars to go around the equator (assuming they floated on water). Total weight… 30,992 tons. If you arranged them in rows and columns, it would cover an area just over a half mile square. Stack them neatly and carefully in one pile, and it would reach 2,026 miles high. Unfortunately, after about 500 feet high, the weight would start crushing the bottom ones. Have a great weekend.
“Twenty years from now you’ll regret more the things you didn’t do than those you did.” Mark Twain
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But what about fractional gold?
http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzcircumference.htm