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Flower & Plant's New Floor: 250,000-Plus Pennies [Gallery]

Family spent more than two months arranging pennies into tiles.

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Chip and Sonya Frederick, owners of Flowers & Plants, Etc. on Chain Bridge Road recently completed redoing their shop's floor entirely in pennies.

More than 250,000 pennies were used, and the couple hopes to achieve a world record.

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