Correction for the weight of The Statue of Liberty (without base)
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How heavy is 1,200,000,000 pennyweights?
It's about thirteen times as heavy as The Statue of Liberty (without base)
The weight of The Statue of Liberty (without base) is about 90,000,000 pennyweights.
(a.k.a. Liberty Enlightening the World, a.k.a. La Liberté éclairant le monde) (total weight, including foundation)
The total weight of the Statue of Liberty — the Statue's copper and framework only, excluding the base — is roughly 90,000,000 pennyweights. The statue was designed using an optical trick known as "forced perspective" to make the statue appear proportionally correct when viewed from its base and is, in actuality, disproportionately large at the top.