Densest Building Materials

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Originally Posted by Richard

In cost-effectiveness terms, that's a lot of buck for not much bang.

The O.P. asked for the densest FTC legal material, which certainly leaves room for ridiculous answers. That's why I suggested Platinum coins, which should actually be both denser and offer better bang/buck ratio than gold. (Clearly a much less ridiculous answer, no?) :-)

But the roll of pennies got me thinking as to which coin would be best to use from a price/mass ratio. For instance, it would probably be cheaper to use American pennies than Canadian ones because the Canadian dollar is trading higher (this week, at least... a big change from being in the sixty cent range when I started playing this game a decade ago.)

I couldn't find out which nation's coinage offered the best mass per dollar ratio, however the closest information that I could find was this site http://www.coinflation.com/ If you go for a pre-1982 US penny, you are actually getting 2.45 cents of copper in every one of them.

Not a bad deal at all.

Jason