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What a crappy design...I'll see myself out.

 

Best use of Lucite entombed coins ever.

 

That would go well with my wheat cent bathroom floor. This isn’t mine, I’m still working on collecting enough to do this, I need almost 13,000 (3,500 more) to cover my bathroom and it’s taking forever to sort through enough to find nice clean examples. I’m avoiding verdigris and dirty coins. I have nearly 40,000 still to sort through. I’m going to do one of these designs, haven’t decided which one yet.

 

I've always kind of wondered about transparent toilet seats. They make me worry that somewhere, someone is selling a transparent toilet.

 

That’s a horrifying thought.

 

I recall reading a thread here last year about a guy who bought a toilet seat similar to the one shown, but it had ASEs in it, not just quarters. When he busted it, he realized that it was just foil or something.

 

I wonder if I could get a custom seat done...my own coins of my own choosing. Could make a real political statement if desired , or just a way to enjoy my collection while taking care of business. Hmm.

 

How do I make change?

 

With a British "2p", of course. How else? All toilet coins should only come from two U.S. mints, however, P and S. Okay, if you get all clinical, I guess D works too.

 

The bathroom floor idea would need some type of protective coating over it to keep the cents from all turning and they may still turn anyway. Maintenance would be a nightmare if you ever had to fix anything through the floor. Then if you go to sell the house some woman's gonna show up and say this floor is hideous! Neat to look at on the computer. Not going that far in real life. Don't call me a pessimist, just a realist.

 

Soak the Cents in Coca-Cola. They will be shiny new in minutes.

 

With or without a Mentos? Oh, that's Diet Coke.

 

The husband will think it's great and they'll buy the place.

 

DEPOSITS ONLY

 

I bought a lot of several seats and lids on eBay years ago (don't judge, silver was high and the closing price was about half the melt value of the silver coins that were included).

I spent some time experimenting with a seat that held clad coins. The stuff is tough to break, tougher to saw, and while you can break out the coins, most of them come out at least slightly bent. Oh, and they're polished before they go in.

You could probably dissolve the plastic with acetone or xylene, but you'd spend more on solvent than you'd get in coins, and that's not assigning any value to the time you'd waste.

If you want to sit on a (very) small fortune, buy one and install it. Don't factor in the value of the coins, though, because they aren't coming out.

 

Better living with duPont Lucite.....

 

You pour a clear epoxy resin over them once you’re finished, sort of like a bar top and extremely durable. Since this has been in my family for three generations of collectors, it feels right to me and I’m not too worried if someone wants to change it down the line. The cost isn’t much more than normal tiles, just much more labor intensive to install.