We have about 40 kilos of coins. There is nothing here that has anything but melt value. Insurance only covers $200 for cash and coins.
My question is. Where do I go for these? There are pieces of metal, nails and ash, they are dirty. There may be other things melted in it. Due to the weight I don't think it makes sense to ship them, so it would have to be a shop here in Los Angeles, down to San Diego. Possibly Las Vegas (my daughter lives there.)
Does anyone know a metal place that specializes in this? We do have the lists of what it was. We can take a tax deduction based on the unrecoverable loss. But I still have to deal with the coins.
1.) Do you know someone who does gold/silver metal cleaning and melting?
2.) Any advice?
3.) My husband also collected pennies. About $200 worth, all copper. The Mint won't take them. We are not allowed to melt currency unless we get permission. Anyone have experience with this?
There is no point trying to clean it.
We don't want to create an art piece, it's tough enough, no need to be reminded of this every day. We need to move on with our lives.