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by nitrogen 2321 days ago
In case anyone else couldn't tell from the image and didn't want to read all of the history:

> An oddity of the design is that it depicts nineteen interlocking gears. Because there is an odd number of them, the mechanism could not actually turn.

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That's not the case for the two pounds though. In the coin's situation, it's because the three gears at the top are interlocked and jammed.