Clear Acrylic Lucite Toilet Seats with Uncirculated Silver Coins, Bills, Coins I count $16.80 FV in the silver seat/lid combo. $253 shipped. Looks like it's about time to resurrect this thread: How to?....Remove coins from an acrylic toilet seat I'm guessing, though, that there's not much hope for freeing the embedded 1969 singles -- the resin would surely have permeated them completely.
Those are some cool toilet seats. I would want to keep them like they are. Could probably sell them to those people who star on MTV cribs. "I got a money toilet yo"
There's a guy who always brings one of the 1964 seats to his table at the local coin show. It does make a good prop. But my family's tolerance of this hobby largely depends on the fact that it doesn't clutter up the house with large, bulky items. Keeping an extra toilet seat around, never mind a collection of toilet seats, would be a non-starter.
It would be very simple to make your own for use or to sell. Make a mold http://www.smooth-on.com/Encapsulation-and-/c1277/index.html Casting epoxy and hardeners, release material, etc. here also. start a business. I wonder if the metallic containing casting epoxy ( they have a machinable hard one) could be used to make one's own tokens ( although, please no dies for counterfeits).
Yes, there is also silver in the dollar toilet set I bet. It is probably over $400 in silver isn't it? I guess you take a sledgehammer to it.
hahahahahaha sledgehammer kinda helps, a drill kinda helps, a chisel and hammer kinda help, a butane torch didnt do much. it took me on and off a few days to get all of the silver out of the one i bought. never did get the wheat cents or buffalo nickels out. surprisingly enough though the only damage done to the coins was by whoever cleaned them for the seat and me with the drill and chisel. the actual seated didn't leave anything on the coins. after i was done i did think about freezing it thought then using the sledgehammer.
Yeah, I think I'm going to try the cryo approach -- put it in the freezer, and if that doesn't make it brittle enough, maybe drop $5 on a block of dry ice. Or visit my old co-workers at the MRI lab and hit it with some liquid nitrogen. I might wait for the January LCS and see if I could move the silver intact, but I'm guessing everybody else would offer a heavy discount due to inaccessibility, too. The description says the coins are "uncirculated", but I'm assuming they're cleaned anyhow. I'm still thinking about that paper money, but no matter how nice it was when it went in, I'm pretty sure it's unrecoverable now.
i forget how much face was in mine but it had it all a morgan walking franklin and kennedy 90% halves 40% halves standing and washington quarters and mercs/roosevelts. i think it was made in 1974 because thats the year all the pennies were. i got it 4x back of melt. let me know if the freezing it works. unless its another good deal i am not going to buy another. it was a pain!!!
