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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1598978, member: 66&quot;]I saw the thread title and thought &quot;Your going to have to have a REALLY big finger to wear a ring with a CBH in it.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Whether it can be removed without damage is going to depend on how it was &quot;fixed&quot; into the ring.&nbsp; If the used compression on the ring, like they do on encasements, the the edge of the coin is probably already damaged.&nbsp; If they used expansion/contraction then the coin might be OK.&nbsp; If I was going to try and remove this coin I would look for some way to apply heat to just the outer ring.&nbsp; Say a steel plate with a hole in it larger than the half but smaller than the ring.&nbsp; Put the piece over the hole so the half is not toughing the plate.&nbsp; Start heating the plate so it starts heating up the outside ring.&nbsp; Now we want to cool the coin.&nbsp; I&#039;d say put cubes of dry ice on it.&nbsp; When the ring is hot and the coin is cold use a wood block or rod that is almost the size of the coin and a mallet to try and &quot;punch the coin out of the ring.</p><p><br /></p><p>The idea here is the cause the ring to expand and the coin to contract breaking the connection between the two.&nbsp; Then the nearl the same size punch overcomes what little connection remains.&nbsp; The&nbsp; same size punch of wood applied the blow to the entire surface of the coin to help prevent damage, and the wood does not conduct heat well so it doesn&#039;t warm the coin back up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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