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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 10666317, member: 27832&quot;]Yep, now you know why things like this trade for less than the value of the coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My own experiments were with a few acrylic toilet seats and lids that had coins embedded. (One lid had <i>dollar bills</i> embedded.) I started smashing one of the seats with clad coins embedded. I got shrapnel almost as bad as glass, and <i>bent</i> coins, some bent enough that they weren&#039;t spendable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t touched the seat with silver coins in it. I got it for well under melt (alas, when silver was higher), but if I got <i>one</i> cut that required stitches, I&#039;d be underwater financially. Likewise if I got enough MEK to dissolve the plastic. None of the coins would have a numismatic premium anyhow; they&#039;re all &quot;shiny&quot;, because they were <i>polished</i>. (Which makes perfect sense for this application.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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