On the record financial pyramid

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A couple of guys ingenious built recently on the post-Soviet space very real monetary pyramid.

Eka wonder, says a reader, but since MMM former Soviet citizens so adept in this case that he Carlo Ponzi in that light bites elbows with envy. But then a special case.

Firstly, the guys for their piramidostroitelstvo got no time, and thanks to all involved in the process. Secondly, they also have the reputation of patrons, not scammers. And, thirdly, the fruits of their labor, they have managed to sell the property to the Central Bank.

How come?

The thing is that it really is a real money pyramid. In the sense - of money. Specifically, of the coins.

According to Guinness World Records, the largest pyramid of money created in Lithuania and is in the Museum of the Central Bank of the country. Its authors, two physics student Vytautas Yakshtas Domas Yokubauskis and collected money for the project throughout the country. Altogether, they managed to get 1 million 55 thousand. 630 coins in denominations of 1 cent (0.01 LTL) Withdrawals from treatment due to the changeover to the euro.

As a result, the tetrahedron was constructed out of 66 thousand. 529 15 stacks of coins height of 1.09 meters and weighing 831 kg. By arrangement with the National Bank of Lithuania, which has got the original artistic and coin object monetary equivalent collected was donated to Mstislav Rostropovich.

A Guinness recorded another pointless (but not in this case useless) record.