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Using Euro coins as weights (2004)

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180 points Tomte | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 10:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.382s | source
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valianteffort ◴[20 Oct 24 12:26 UTC] No.41894894[source]▶
The 1 JPY coin and (all?) USD bills are 1 gram exactly
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1. int_19h ◴[20 Oct 24 22:15 UTC] No.41898938[source]▶
Soviet coins were specifically designed with this in mind:

1 kopeck - 1g

2 kopecks - 2g

3 kopecks - 3g

5 kopecks - 5g

(They didn't keep it proportional for 10+ probably because 5g is already a fairly hefty coin.)