Will this mint set ever tarnish?

Seriously though: How was this made? How can you suspend coins in acrylic while it's setting?

Well, I guess they do it with $100 bills and who knows what else...

 

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Mirrors, they do it with mirrors.

 

Back in the day, a friend's parents had a toilet seat made like that. With 1964 dimes, quarters, halves.

 

I think the trick was to pour resin-with-catalyst part of the way, set the first coin until it stayed put, add more resin, set the next coin, and so on. It's a lot less fussing if you're doing something like a toilet seat where all the coins are situated on the same plane.

 

I picked yes because in 200-500 years the acrylic will decompose.

 

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Hmm. Wouldn't that leave a faint seam at the joins? IDK, all I've ever done was resin and it turned out I wasn't exactly a pro at that either.

 

There were many variations of this type of coin 'preservation'

 

What goes up must come down. Eventually it will according to Einstein's theory and others.

 

I want to see one made of double eaglesthe richest toilet seat in the world!!.

 

Well, there was this giant toilet seat. (Why is it so hard to find a good picture of this thing?) 100 $10000 bills encased in acrylic. I saw it in person back in the day; it no longer exists.

 

Potty, this one might not be made of double eagles, but it's not lacking in gold content




Here's a link to the article:

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-cu...5-million-solid-gold-throne-built-shrine-hero

 

I believe that's a horse shoe, not a toilet seat.

 

You forgot the smoke! lol

 

Will This Mint Set Tarnish? Wrap it in a couple Taco Bell napkins, set it on a southern facing window seal. Come back in 20 years to check progress.

 

Yes, smoke and mirrors.

 

Oh jeez. A gold toilet bowl. It's hard to say what I think about that without violating house rules, so I'll just express my general dismay.

OTOH, it can easily be melted down and recast into something I'd approve of, such as ...gold coins in my collection.

 

Hmm, coins are forged not cast of course, but aren't the planchets themselves stamped out of sheet metal? I really don't know.

 

This should explain it: