Coolest ebay item in a long time!!!!!!!!!!

rainbowroosie · March 25, 2004 11:52AM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3903856004&indexURL=2&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting Dinner at the Mint!

I like this!!!!!!!!!!!! And I don't collect dollars!!!!!

SeattleSlammer · March 25, 2004 12:21PM

Wolf359 · March 25, 2004 12:25PM

Pretty wild. Are they glued to the glass? Looks like it with that wierd AT-looking toning.

rainbowroosie · March 25, 2004 12:28PM

Do you think you could smash out the coins??? Hard to tell how they are sitting from the photo??.....This is one time when I wish I had real money so I could just buy it and not worry about anything except that it "looks really cool!"

cdwegner · March 25, 2004 1:51PM

it reminds me of that toilet seat cover someone posted awhile ago.

relayer · March 25, 2004 2:29PM

I wonder if these qualify as market-acceptable natural toning

Bear · March 25, 2004 2:33PM

Of course its natural toning. Is there any other kind?

Stooge · March 25, 2004 3:13PM

I was in Vegas a few years back and went into a store on the strip and they had a clear plexi-glass toilet seat and cover with new Lincoln cents all throughout the inside of the seat. I thought that it was kewl! Not for $400 though.

later, Paul.

Monstavet · March 25, 2004 6:14PM

That is pretty interesting. Looks like some may be damaged or have glu on them or something. Cool the way the toning has crept in from the edges so that the outermost coins are heavily toned and the one in the center is almost untouched. I guess that is from years of cigarette smoke exposure? Interesting item...would be fun to get a closer look.

mnmcoin · March 26, 2004 12:39AM

As the seller says they are in lucite, I believe it would be impossible to remove the coins successfully. I believe lucite is sort of like an apoxy (sp) which would bond together with the coin, in effect, sealing the coins completely. I have a 1953 proof set with absolutely gorgeous coins, all look PR68. I bought it a long time ago, with the intention of being able to sell it to my father (a large proof set dealer). My father saw the set and said no, that sets like that are not marketable as a proof set anymore.

With that being said, I think that is a very cool item, but if anyone plans on buying it, don't buy it with the idea of being able to crack all the coins out. Buy it as the cool item that it is.

morris <><

pontiacinf · March 26, 2004 12:48AM

mn is right, the coins are irretriveable and im sure the lucite bonding to the silver has damaged them conciderably...the seller knows these cannot be retrieved.

Prometheus183 · March 26, 2004 1:43AM

Seller states:
THE INSERT IS TWO PIECES OF LUCITE OR PLEXIGLASS PUT TOGETHER WITH SILICON ADHESIVE. THE SILVER DOLLARS ARE WITHIN THIS SOFTER SILICONE LAYER.

They could be retrieved from the silicone, but the damage has already been done, hence the "toning".
Many silicone products contain acetic acid and similar chemicals that can cause corrosive reactions on various metals to include, but not limited to:copper, nickel, lead, brass, and silver.
From the picture, it would appear that the white surfaces of the Morgans are the only portions that were not completely saturated by the compound.
Ain't chemistry grand?

Craig