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Is 34.70 shekels ( שקלים) as heavy as The Statue of Liberty (without base)?

It's about one-five-hundred-thousandth as heavy as The Statue of Liberty (without base)
Flag of The US
The weight of The Statue of Liberty (without base) is about 17,000,000 shekels ( שקלים).
(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 17,000,000 shekels ( שקלים). 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.
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