Hey folks—new collector here courtesy of an inherited collection. I know enough to know one is NEVER supposed to clean coins, however my great grandfather left me little choice. I’ll explain. He gave my grandmother and grandfather a card for their 25th wedding anniversary in 1953 with 25 Morgan silver dollars. It has one magnetic circular space on the front cover, and inside there are 24 more circular spaces—these, unfortunately required he glue the Morgan’s into place. So, I’ve got 24 Morgan’s with glue on them I’d like to remove. I’ll try to post pics. Any recommendations on how to remove the glue? Goo Gone? Help! TIA!
If it's just Elmer's glue, maybe @rte 's suggestion of some good scalding hot water might work. That would be nice. If not, I'd try acetone. Goo-Gone might work, but I wouldn't want to remove the toning on the coins, so...?
I should add that the faintly iridescent, colorful toning on the pictured coin is nice. Mind you, it isn't original toning- that coin has already been cleaned and so that is secondary toning there. But it's preferable to the harsh white of an over-cleaned coin. This is the sort of thing one might call "album toning". It likely resulted from the sulfur in the paper of that old card. PS- what a nice gift that was, 73 years ago. And a cool story. So regardless, despite their issues, you've got something sentimentally priceless there.
