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-----Does a penny head weigh more?
I read somewhere that the head side of a penny weighs more than the tails side. Is that true and how is that determined?
Paul- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
2003
If you had a scale about a million times more accurate than today's best scales, you probably would find that a penny weighs more turned heads up or tails up because very slightly more of the mass would be very slightly closer to the center of the earth.
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