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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 26449456, member: 27832"]I bought an eBay lot years ago that had several clear toilet seats and lids. One lid had a fan of $1 bills, and I think there was a lid and seat with clad coinage and a lid and seat with silver. I paid around silver melt plus non-silver face value for the lot. </p><p><br /></p><p>I ruined a hobby jigsaw trying to chop up the clad seat (as an experiment). I managed to smash up one piece enough to free a couple of coins, but they came out bent. They'd also been polished before they went into the resin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I figured I could free up everything with acetone, but the cost of the acetone would probably exceed whatever I could get for the coins. Between that cost, the time it would take, and the non-zero risk of fire or narcosis - well, it's all still sitting in storage. Maybe I'll see if I can find a sticker, erm, buyer at the November show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 26449456, member: 27832"]I bought an eBay lot years ago that had several clear toilet seats and lids. One lid had a fan of $1 bills, and I think there was a lid and seat with clad coinage and a lid and seat with silver. I paid around silver melt plus non-silver face value for the lot. I ruined a hobby jigsaw trying to chop up the clad seat (as an experiment). I managed to smash up one piece enough to free a couple of coins, but they came out bent. They'd also been polished before they went into the resin. I figured I could free up everything with acetone, but the cost of the acetone would probably exceed whatever I could get for the coins. Between that cost, the time it would take, and the non-zero risk of fire or narcosis - well, it's all still sitting in storage. Maybe I'll see if I can find a sticker, erm, buyer at the November show.[/QUOTE]
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