I have sort of "inherited" a few gold coins from my inlaws. They are very cool coins, but I have to admit there is a problem : former owner had a very personnal understanding of the expression "take care with coins" and he decided it would be fancy to display them stuck with scotchtape on cardoard :headbang::headbang: Some others have been displayed in capsules, not slabbed and full of dust. For the ones "scotchtaped" I think the only solution is to melt them down :crying:but for the others, is there a solution that would prevent from further dammage ? Thanks for your input Q
Melting them down is a little extreme IMO, Acetone would work perfectly with scotch tape.. Almost like Acetone was meant to take that stuff off a coin.
The scotch taped ones would still be worth much more then melt i'm sure. Also for the otehrs you could recapsulate them in a capsule that has the protective foam around it or send them in to get graded by PCGS/NGC therefore protecting them in their protective slabs.
I already tried acetone and it didn't work very much, I'm afraid Q PS : the melting down thing was just to show how desperate I am, I would certainly not melt down inherited coins, of course (although I'm french, I'm civilized, at some point ) Q
Have you considered using something like GOO-GONE to remove the tape residue? You might try it on a bullion value coin before using it on your O Canada commem just to see what happens.
It is a liquid. We have used it to remove labels from glassware but had to scrape a little. Not sure how it would affect silver hence my suggestion you try it out on junk silver first. If you are serious about selling it for scrap as your only other option it won't hurt to try this first.
Your coin is a 100$ gold piece with bullion at 1/2 ounce of gold. The numismatic value on these is next to none unless they have a mintage of less than 5000. I am pretty up on the 100 $ gold as I have collected pretty much the entire series. I like them they are very well done and I like the denomination. I have bought almost all for less than issue price usually at bullion value. My point would be that if gold is $1000.00 per ounce your coin is worth $500.00 regardless if it is messed up , perfect it is worth maybe 575.00. Gold is better than this curentley I am to lazy to work out the actual.
