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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1918384, member: 27832&quot;]Putting them in a dehydrator is unlikely to help; it&#039;ll just cement residue onto the coins. The best hope is rinsing in distilled water.</p><p><br /></p><p>The collection certainly has lost value, but estimating the lost value will be non-trivial. If these are mostly non-silver proof sets, they&#039;re probably worth face value at this point; silver would be worth melt. You might be able to claim loss on that basis against the original purchase prices, but I don&#039;t know how you&#039;d go about legally supporting it.</p><p><br /></p><p>...actually, resale value of proof sets isn&#039;t <i>that</i> much better than face/melt anyway, so if you <i>could</i> claim this as a flood-related loss, you might well end up with more money than if you&#039;d tried to sell the original, undamaged sets. I&#039;m not sure about the ethical ramifications here, but it&#039;s an interesting situation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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