Japanese Master of Stacking Coins Will Blow Your Mind
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By Khier Casino
Building a house of cards can be a difficult task, but that is amateur hour compared to this Japanese Twitter users’ coin stacking skills.
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To say that the gravity-defying feat is jaw-dropping is an understatement.
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The amazing artist, known by the Twitter handle Thumb Tani, attempts to stack coins on top of kitchen utensils, wobbly wine glasses and even on the tip of a vertical pen.
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Shunsuke Tani told BuzzFeed in 2016 that he began stacking coins a few years ago when he tried to balance a 1 yen coin on top of a 10 yen coin.
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He then used a 500 yen coin on a 1 yen coin.
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His coin structures became more and more extravagant.
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And it takes incredible patience to balance coins on top of each other.
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Tani said that each creation can take between a few minutes to half an hour to stack, depending on the difficulty of the design.
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Some of his work looks like architecture from the future.
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Here’s an egg!
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Check out Tani in action below:
And whatever you do, don’t sneeze!
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