MORE COINS IN LUCITE
The E-Sylum (12/6/2020)
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MORE COINS IN LUCITE
Dave Lange writes:
"I'll add something to the growing gallery of Lucite-embedded coins, though I believe you ran these images several years ago. I have a lucite paperweight from 1960 commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Beistle Company, maker of novelty paper products and, of course, the National Coin Albums."
Dave's correct - we ran these images in November, 2014. Well worth revisiting.-Editor
Dave Schenkman writes:
"The article about Lucite holders reminded me of two items that have been sitting on my bookshelves for years. One, from Temple Industries, has a full set of tokens from Southern Pine Lumber Company of Diboll, Texas. The other contains a medal issued in 1952 by the Indian Head (Maryland) Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center. In the 1970s I lived a couple of miles from this facility.
"And I'm sure you know Mrs. Butter-Worth. The coin is a 1960 quarter. I wonder if anyone collects this sort of thing..."
Dave adds:
"I wonder if this will start a new collecting mania. Perhaps NGC and PCGS should start tooling up so these embedded coins can be slabbed. Just think; a slab in a slab."
Phil Iversen writes:
"Some years ago I remember receiving a magazine that sold all kinds of oddball products. One item was a plastic toilet seat embedded with coins. Today on eBay there is one with coins and currency for sale."
Ah, yes - how could I forget those! Good times. These are apparently still being manufactured as Walmart, Wayfair other retail outlets are selling them, so somebody must be out there buying them. Thanks, everyone!-Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
MORE LUCITE-ENCASED COINS: SPELLMAN, BEISTLE(https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n49a15.html)
COINS IN LUCITE(https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n48a11.html)
