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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 5143765, member: 105098&quot;]Well I think if someone is really well versed in electroplating, reverse electrolysis would remove the gold plating with minimal damage to the silver. The electrolysis solution would have to be gold bearing to begin with so it doesn&#039;t try to take up the silver also. </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of times though, they sand them and polish them and dip them in acid before plating so that the gold sticks well. so even if you did get it off with reverse electrolysis it&#039;s likely it&#039;s still been messed with when they plated it and manipulated surfaces. Might be a nice deplating/reclaimation experiment for someone though.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve saved plated quarters dimes nickels and cents I&#039;ve found over the years hoping one day to do all this stuff and reclaim the gold and platinum and silver. LOL, likely not worth the effort though unless it becomes pounds and pounds of it found and I was sure I could spend the coins still after deplating them because the metal isn&#039;t&nbsp; likely worth much more than the face value of the coin, it&#039;s so thin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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