How much do you think a jewelers solder effects the value of a coin?

i may not mess with it such a gorgeous coin don't want to further damage it such a shame about the solder. I may buy a junk silver quarter solder it play with removing it though and if I can do it safely I might consider removing it.

And I always go in with a budget when I got to the coin shop. I actually went $8 over and she said I could pay next time when I go in. Sometimes I go in knowing what I want with a plan other times I look at 50 different coins and I always keep want lists and excel spreadsheets on my phone of halves and needs so I know what I am getting. Up until now I had mostly been working on US type sets and a few random sets like Franklin halves i just recently started to expand to world crowns and foreign coins so now I have a lot more options. When the LCS had some crowns I couldn't pass em up so the bust half went on the back burner my LCS just carries so few foreign coins I gotta grab em the moment I see them.

 

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I'm out of ideas, LOL. OK, just one more; Dremel for 90%, jewelers' rouge for the remaining 10%, under high magnification.

 

If it is lead solder the comments about the low melting point and the use of desoldering copper wick or a suction tool to remove most of the solder may be a possibility. But if it is SILVER solder, which is more likely, that is a whole different thing entirely.

Lead or tin solder melts at about 500 degrees, a temperature easily reached with a pencil soldering iron and low enough not to damage the coin. Lead solder is used for electronics, tin solder for plumbing. Applications where high bond strengths are not needed.

Silver solder on the other hand melts at around 1300 to 1500 degrees. For that you are going to need a torch of some kind, the chance of damaging the coin is very high, and it isn't possible to use a desoldering wick or suction tool. Silver solders are used in jewelry or applications where high bond strengths are needed and the solder acts as a structural part of the object.

 

Yeah, I always had to use oxyacetylene to solder silver in central air units.

 

Ah. The "silver solders" I've used bear only a few percent silver, and melt not too much hotter than regular tin/lead. I think they're mostly intended for soldering to silver-plated components without dissolving the silver layer; very different application. Now I realize that I knew a good bit less about "silver solder" than I thought.

I don't know what a jeweler might have used here, but I'm guessing they'd use something that wouldn't require heating the coin that much -- so much that it would damage the surface texture. I didn't notice evidence of such damage in the photos. But, again, I'm in over my head already. For a coin that nice, don't rely on my advice!

 

Did I see $20 correctly??

 

Looks like a great deal to me.

 

Yep I paid $20 for it, I am thinking you could get away with charging VG or F money on it even with the solder since its a small amount and with the nice XF45 grade but yep I paid less than FMV for a G grade