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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2608669, member: 27832&quot;]...and do NOT underestimate this.</p><p><br /></p><p>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 <i>clad</i> coins (the mounting points were trashed, so I figured its intact value was pretty low).</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;t get injured, at least not until I tried picking up the knife-edged fragments.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I tried smashing individual bits with a sledgehammer. That works, but you get bent coins out of it. (Polished, too, as [USER=1892]@SuperDave[/USER] pointed out.) Also, more high-velocity shrapnel.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>The plastic dissolves in acetone, or so I&#039;m told. Buying enough acetone to do the job would cost more than buying undamaged coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line (sorry): don&#039;t (pee) away your money on something like this. Unless your understanding of &quot;Seated Dollar collection&quot; is <i>very</i> different from mine...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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