For the dedicated Morgan/Peace $ collector

Heck, I didn't even factor melt value. Add that to my estimate.

 

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Maybe I shouldn't bring this up but how is one going to weigh the individual coins?

 

...and do NOT underestimate this.

I got five-piece batch (2 seats, 3 lids) a few years ago when silver was near its peak. I decided to experiment by breaking up a seat with clad coins (the mounting points were trashed, so I figured its intact value was pretty low).

Breaking it with a hammer? Pretty darn hard. Put it in the freezer, tried again, and this time it worked -- launching shrapnel everywhere. I didn't get injured, at least not until I tried picking up the knife-edged fragments.

Then I tried smashing individual bits with a sledgehammer. That works, but you get bent coins out of it. (Polished, too, as @SuperDave pointed out.) Also, more high-velocity shrapnel.

Then I tried cutting up some of the bigger chunks with a Dremel (I think) reciprocating saw. Got the saw blade irretrievably wedged in the cut. Add the cost of a saw to the total.

The plastic dissolves in acetone, or so I'm told. Buying enough acetone to do the job would cost more than buying undamaged coins.

Bottom line (sorry): don't (pee) away your money on something like this. Unless your understanding of "Seated Dollar collection" is very different from mine...

 

Kinda depends on the composition of the plastic. Some of them tell acetone to go pound sand.

 

No need. They all weigh approximately 26.73g, with about 24.06g of that being silver.

 

Dumb question: Who says those coins are genuine in the first place?

 

Talk about crappy quality...

 

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