Pennies from Heaven

This is the window that my student has been working on for weeks now. The first photo shows how it looks as we have been working on it. The pennies are under the glass helping us raise the glass up into the lead as we went along constructing the window.  Once the window is soldered the pennies will no longer be needed. It makes a sort of polka dot image at the moment but soon all the copper pennies will be removed from the image to reveal just the hummingbirds and the flowing lines of the lead. It has been a fun project and it will be great to see it completed. The second pic shows the window right side up.