If there was an award for the world’s most patient man, he would definitely win it.
Instead, Tai Star has settled for the record holder of the most coins stacked on a single dime.
Star, from Tucson, Arizona, spent seven hours building a tower of 3,118 coins on a dime
The impressive structure consisted of 600 quarters, 501 dimes, 313 nickels, 1699 pennies and five foreign coins.
He starts with the single dime and places it near the edge of a table.
Star explained: ‘It is on the very corner for a few reasons: to make it easy to see that it is on one dime and I think the structure of the table is most sturdy there – plus I just like precarious balance.’
Then, over the course of seven hours, he begins stacking coins on the dime in a circular shape.
On website RecordSetting.com, where he uploaded a video of the feat, he explained he used ‘three dimes on a quarter for four layers, then a bigger coin for four layers, then a ring of dime for at least four layers, and next size coins, pennies nickels quarters. Then more dimes, and so on...’
At one point, the coins fall before he patiently gets to work replacing them.
When the vase-shape structure is complete, he drops in a handful of coins, including a British five pence and a Spanish peso.
With the achievement, the meticulous stacker broke other records on the site – all previously set by him. His first was 469, followed by 1,700.
Star holds 11 other records on the website.
He has set the record for the Longest Time To Balance A Drumstick On Finger While Balancing On An Exercise Ball with 28.83 seconds, and the Tallest Coin Tower using 117 quarters.
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