Coins Embedded In Plastic Paper Weights

OAKSTAR

So hypothetically or make believe, you found or saw a significant coin in one of these things. How would you remove it? Or would you send it to our host and let them remove it? 😂 ....or just slab the entire thing? 🤣

cheezhed

I like the 1964 set.

PeakRarities

Im going to assume you meant to say "How would you remove it?"

I recently read on one of the forums that these types of blocks can be dissolved in acetone. Let it soak, then scrape away the goop layer and repeat. Might take some time to free the coins but evidently it can be done. I doubt any of the TPGs would attempt to do it for you.

OAKSTAR

Thanks @DeplorableDan! I'm dyslexic or something!! 😫

Mr_Spud

I’d just leave it alone and enjoy it as is. I like those but never found any special variety in any of them. I’d be afraid of damaging it if I tried to remove it.
I have a nice 64 Kennedy in a lucite prism on my shelf at work. I like how it looks like there are 3 coins present when I look at it at certain angles.

Jzyskowski1

I saw that post too. Seems labor intensive and a chance of messing the coins up. Thanks 🙏

OAKSTAR

I understand your point @Mr_Spud. But what if that 64 was a high mint state DDO? Keep it on the shelf and look at it? I don't know.

Mr_Spud

@OAKSTAR said:
I understand your point @Mr_Spud. But what if that 64 was a high mint state DDO? Keep it on the shelf and look at it? I don't know.

Yes, I’d keep it on the shelf and look at it and I’d point out the variety if I ever tried to sell it. I bet you could get someone to put a variety sticker on it if it was important to have a third party confirm it. Like doesn’t messydesk do variety stickers for VAMs and some other varieties? Something like that might be do-able without removing it, maybe 🤔

But keep in mind that I’d like to, someday, run a key date coin through an elongation machine and keep it on a shelf and look at it. Might look good encased in lucite 😉

alaura22

@OAKSTAR said:
I understand your point @Mr_Spud. But what if that 64 was a high mint state DDO? Keep it on the shelf and look at it? I don't know.

Put it on the shelf with a price tag

OAKSTAR

@Mr_Spud said:

@OAKSTAR said:
I understand your point @Mr_Spud. But what if that 64 was a high mint state DDO? Keep it on the shelf and look at it? I don't know.

Yes, I’d keep it on the shelf and look at it and I’d point out the variety if I ever tried to sell it. I bet you could get someone to put a variety sticker on it if it was important to have a third party confirm it. Like doesn’t messydesk do variety stickers for VAMs and some other varieties? Something like that might be do-able without removing it, maybe 🤔

But keep in mind that I’d like to, someday, run a key date coin through an elongation machine and keep it on a shelf and look at it. Might look good encased in lucite 😉

Yes, he does. So would he put one of his stickers on a paper weight? 😂 I'm not to sure.

Hold on, let me call him.....@messydesk John- Are you out there? 😉

bsshog40

I don't know where I got this from, but it sits in my shop on a shelf. The shaft was missing ever since I had it.

Goldminers

As I described on the other thread. I removed this medal from a block of Lucite using acetone.

I did not think it was a big deal so did not take a good photo of the paperweight or the process first. The very tiny pic (all that I could get off old eBay) is the medal in Lucite. The slab is the result.

The medal was not damaged at all, if you do it right. Yes, it took a lot of hacksawing, and two quarts of acetone, and hours of work, but this was a medal that I have not found any other way.

It is an official 1970 US. Mint medal and you can see the Philadelphia mint mark on the reverse near the bottom, and it is now in my top National Commemorative set. The only one ever graded, so it was worth it to me.

If any of you have one of these in silver, I will offer $500 for it even if it is in a big block of lucite, acrylic, paperweight or whatever.

lilolme

This has been posted before. Could not find it but found the YouTube. The title:

I Ruined A Morgan Silver Dollar! I Tried To Remove It From Acrylic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbMVD06Cut8

Goldminers

You do not want to use a vice and a hammer and chisel. LOL

Goldminers

I just bought this rare 1957 Federal Land Bank medal in Lucite and am going to try my dry ice and hammer theory.
If it works, great, if not it will be back to sawing and acetone.

I believe it will melt off at around 270 degrees, but somewhere much higher it might burn or catch fire. Haven't tried that method either, but I have considered it

steve76020

start with a vise and a band saw, or jig saw.. lol

rte592

I probably take a saw to it and cut the sides the same direction as the coin as close to the coin leave a 1/6" buffer.
Add acitone to the crack or soak then wedge the two half's apart or twist like an Oreo in a vice.
With any luck the coin Will Pop out of one side.

OAKSTAR

Now we're cookin' with grease!!

OAKSTAR

@lilolme- Any one know about this coinhelpu guy? Is he on this forum?

lilolme

@OAKSTAR said:
@lilolme- Any one know about this coinhelpu guy? Is he on this forum?

I do not know but I don't think so. I just could not remember the prior posting of the video on the forum and could not find it in the search. So I went to the internet search. @joeykoins seems to do a lot of the video guys/gals so maybe he might know.

golden

I have a toilet seat that has coins embedded in it including a Silver Dollar, but it is whizzed.

jonathanb

I tried removing something from lucite once. It was ridiculously difficult. I would never consider doing it again.

NCS can remove objects from lucite. I think they charge their normal per-item fees. If you have something worth removing from lucite, it is WELL worth paying them and not trying to do it yourself.

More discussion: https://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n29a13.html

OAKSTAR

@lilolme said:

@OAKSTAR said:
@lilolme- Any one know about this coinhelpu guy? Is he on this forum?

I do not know but I don't think so. I just could not remember the prior posting of the video on the forum and could not find it in the search. So I went to the internet search. @joeykoins seems to do a lot of the video guys/gals so maybe he might know.

Thanks! I think this coinhelpu also has a coin forum. Have never heard anything good about it.

TomB

Oh My God!!! It's a 1964 SMS paperweight!!!

BLUEJAYWAY

I've got a 68 quarter embedded in lucite with an egg timer embedded in as well. Measures 2 3/4x 2 3/4 x1 inch. Was a bank promotion. If I ever get motivated in posting pictures will post it.

Morgan13

There is a very easy way to remove coins from Lucite or any plastic for that matter. I did it a few times but the Morgan's looked better in the Lucite than after I pulled them out.
I agree with everyone else. Leave them alone.

jmlanzaf

@golden said:
I have a toilet seat that has coins embedded in it including a Silver Dollar, but it is whizzed.

You should probably work on your aim

jmlanzaf

@150K said:
There is a very easy way to remove coins from Lucite or any plastic for that matter. I did it a few times but the Morgan's looked better in the Lucite than after I pulled them out.
I agree with everyone else. Leave them alone.

It kind of depends on what the coin is.

OAKSTAR

@150K said:
There is a very easy way to remove coins from Lucite or any plastic for that matter. I did it a few times but the Morgan's looked better in the Lucite than after I pulled them out.
I agree with everyone else. Leave them alone.

It probably looks better because the Lucite acts like a magnifying glass. The coin looks twice as big. 😉

Fraz

@jmlanzaf said:

@golden said:
I have a toilet seat that has coins embedded in it including a Silver Dollar, but it is whizzed.

You should probably work on your aim

That’s gold!

Glen2022

@golden said:
I have a toilet seat that has coins embedded in it including a Silver Dollar, but it is whizzed.

Is it a MS 1885 CC?

kirkmink

@OAKSTAR said:
@lilolme- Any one know about this coinhelpu guy? Is he on this forum?

He runs a coin shop in Ohio. You can reach him through his shop. Name is Daniel.

https://portsmouthcoinshop.com/

bramn8r

Here's mine, 18 1969 and 1970 Lincoln's. From a bank in Homestead, FL.

ChrisH821

@kirkmink said:

@OAKSTAR said:
@lilolme- Any one know about this coinhelpu guy? Is he on this forum?

He runs a coin shop in Ohio. You can reach him through his shop. Name is Daniel.

https://portsmouthcoinshop.com/

I like his videos, no BS or hype like a lot of others.

JWP

@OAKSTAR said:
So hypothetically or make believe, you found or saw a significant coin in one of these things. How would you remove it? Or would you send it to our host and let them remove it? 😂 ....or just slab the entire thing? 🤣

If you want to remove it in 1 easy step - just send it to me
I LIKE IT..🙂😁🙂

OAKSTAR

@JWP- LoL!! 😂 🤣 👍🏻 👍🏻

M4Madness

@Glen2022 said:

@golden said:
I have a toilet seat that has coins embedded in it including a Silver Dollar, but it is whizzed.

Is it a MS 1885 CC?

I just purchased a MS64 1885-CC Morgan last night. I hope it didnt come from a toilet seat. Lol!

ricko

Cut away any of the larger extraneous material, then soak in acetone... Will likely take a few soaks, each time with fresh acetone. If you cannot cut some away, it will take much longer. Cheers, RickO

MrEureka

jmlanzaf

@MrEureka said:
![](https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/7w/1zx7vx5p3iuw.jpeg "

Is that Ira Stein?

BLUEJAYWAY

@MrEureka said:

Looks like there is some brockage on the seat.

Lakesammman

Got you all beat - a multimillion dollar coin - just need to figure out how to get it out!

Sapyx

When it comes to removing a coin from inside a chunk of acrylic, the core question to resolve is, "why".

If you wish to keep the coin with your other coins in your collection, then sure, that makes sense.

If you wish to sell it and same money on shipping costs, I suppose so... but you'll probably spend more on liberation costs than you would save on shipping.

If the acrylic is damaged, discoloured or the coin has found itself inside a bubble within the acrylic, then sure - it's ugly, and removing it will be of benefit.

If you wish to best preserve the coin, then removing it from the acrylic is a backwards step. This stuff is like artificial amber, that coin is going to stay perfectly preserved inside the acrylic for millennia; it's better protected than even inside a slab, as the slab is less airtight.

Some_of_it

I was tempted to try to remove these from lucite but after about 12 years of searching, I found nice examples that were not encased.

jfriedm56

From a Canadian friend of mine

r_leever

I did that with a Ryobi handheld circular saw and a small chisel.

r_leever

This weekend, I have another I am going to do, but this time I am going to film what I do with the GoPro.

BLUEJAYWAY

@Lakesammman said:
Got you all beat - a multimillion dollar coin - just need to figure out how to get it out!

Notice all of the spelling is correct on this 1913 "holder".

JBK

@r_leever said:

I did that with a Ryobi handheld circular saw and a small chisel.

The silver dollar looks heavily polished, as many or most were prior to being imbedded. At that point most are more interesting inside the block.

Fraz

@r_leever said:

I did that with a Ryobi handheld circular saw and a small chisel.

How would that plastic block look glued back together? A kintsugi-type repair might look cool.

AlanSki

Dremel and acetone. Lots of acetone.