Idea For Awesome Silver Bullion Design

SILVER LEGOS!



I'd buy it!

Edit: and you could even have gold and platinum pieces... build a little castle

I think you'll find there's a reason Lego is made from plastic and not metal.

Lego works because the pieces of plastic bend and stretch slightly as they are pushed together and pulled apart again. Metal typically doesn't have that kind of elasticity to anywhere near the same degree. Pure silver certainly doesn't. If you tried doing it with metal parts, you'd get friction - and friction on metal generates "wear" - as any coin collector will tell you. So while the bricks might work great at first, they'd get looser and looser the more they were used, until they got so worn down you'd have to solder them in place to make them stick. Worse, metal is much more likely to generate stress cracking.

Now, you might be able to give the pieces a thick plastic coating. You also might be able to discover some kind of strange high-silver alloy that did have much better elasticity. But in both cases, you're starting to move well away from things that could still be classifiable as "bullion".

LOL. I love it.