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Three years ago, Corey Nielsen, a middle-aged man from Tolleson,
Arizona, embarked on a journey to build the world’s largest pyramid of
stacked pennies. He only had a few thousand coins and a dream at the
time, but today he’s inching closer to finally accomplishing his goal.
The current record for the world’s largest coin pyramid stands at
1,000,935 coins. It was set in 2014 by Vytautas Jakštas and Domas
Jokubauskis, in the small Baltic country of Lithuania, as a way to
celebrate the adoption of the euro. In one of his videos, Corey Nielsen
claims that they had a team of 100 people working on it – although I
haven’t been able to verify if that is true – but he decided he could
build an even bigger one by himself. He had built smaller penny pyramids
before, but this was a much bigger project, one that would take daily
work over multiple years to complete. Well, after almost three years of
penny stacking, he’s nearly there.
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Digg recently reported that Nielsen, who goes by Penny Building Fool on
YouTube, is less than 100,000 pennies away from breaking the world
record. He’s been documenting his progress through periodically-released
videos that show just how far he’s come in the last three years. The
base of of his coin behemoth has grown constantly and it is now made up
of 65 x 65 rows of stacked pennies.
Nielsen’s soon-to-be record-breaking coin pyramid currently consists of
938,322 neatly stacked pennies. That’s nearly $10,000 worth of humble
pennies, with a combined weight of 5,792 pounds. The patient builder has
already received the last 100,000 pennies required to break the Guinness
record, and hopes to stack them all onto his giant pyramid by the end of
this month.
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Back in 2016, when the penny enthusiast was announcing his plans to
build the world’s largest pyramid, he claimed that the ultimate goal
wasn’t just to break the world record by a couple of coins, but actually
double the number of coins used by Jakštas and Jokubauskis. That was
three years ago, though, so who knows if he’s willing to put another
three years into this project.
You may think dedicating so much time and effort to a coin pyramid is
silly, but you have to admire the man’s patience and dedication. I
wonder how he kept it safe all these years, though. Can you imagine
someone accidentally stumbling over it and ruining years of painstaking
work? That would have been brutal!
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