I'm redoing my currently pink bathroom floor with a mosaic of wheat cents. My first task it to find thousands of clean (free of gunk or verdigris) cents. This is proving to be pretty time consuming already. I purchased 30,000 wheat cents from my LCS for 1.7 cents each and am keeping about 40% of them so far. I have a feeling that this may take a while to complete. Anyone have a spare loupe and want to help me search a pile of dirty coins? The good news is that these seem to actually be a collection of truly unsearcherd coins that have sat around for decades. Though I haven't found much to call amazing quite yet, I have found two VDBs and a few poor mans 55s (which are not errors, simply worn dies). I did find what I thought to be a well worn 14-D, but it turned out to be a 17-D after a little closer look. With about 29,000 more to go, maybe I'll find something fun. This is an example of what I think that I'm going to do. Not quite decided on the pattern quite yet, there are plenty out there if you Google "penny floor". Sadly there are virtually no results if you search for "cent floor". Oh and I made some crawfish egg rolls out of the leftover tails from my boil yesterday for anyone that shows up to lend a hand. There is plenty of beer left too. And for the record, I am sparing any coin that I would consider to be collectable. All of the red cents and almost everything pre 1945 will get put back into circulation to help us land a few more collectors and to get the roll hunters excited.
That sounds rather painful searching through them all. How do you plan to seal them in? Rather than cut, you'll refit the porcelain?
All of the old fixtures are coming out to be replaced with older cast iron fixtures, so I won't need to cut anything. The top sealer will be a bar top clear epoxy. And yes, I'm going blind looking at all of these, but it's fun too. I just hope that I find at least one 14-D, 31-S, or a copper 43 would be nice. I thought I had a 22 plain a little while ago, but it was just a faint D. Pretty close, but no.
hey, 1912-s, and anything 1909 would be a great find too in my books!!! hey, a 1912-s or anything 1909 is a great find in my books!!!
This looks really cool but wouldn't the color on these change drastically over time until they're all just brown and you lose the color pattern? Unless there's some thick clear sealant to protect them. Sent from my XT1093 using Tapatalk
There are a bunch of DIYs out there. Here you go @Kirkuleez ... Just DONT Be this guy (or gal)... Whenever I see these I always think about the weight of these floors and now walls of copper and/or zinc.
