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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismat, post: 2270706, member: 15019&quot;]Took a chance on a strip from and old scrapbook that had a few Swiss coins glued to it. Mostly common/circulated coins, but one of them peaked my curiosity - a fully lustrous mint state 1 franc with the date side glued onto paper and unable to be seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;before&quot; pics:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/A0E207C6-8883-4E14-B993-B58D52EE8574.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/71479D95-3E6B-4149-9BBC-C679B315F2C4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was a bit concerned because I&#039;ve had mixed results with removing glue off of coins, even with pure acetone. I wanted to avoid using any sort of chemical treatments and especially to avoid the brute force toothpick attack. Going ape on the glue is my preferred method for cheap/junky coins, but this is one of the lower mintage dates and pretty valuable in this condition, so that was not an option.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got lucky though, and after a couple minutes in boiling hot water, the whole glue splat came right off in one piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;After&quot; pic:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/473A02D5-41C4-4EEF-A2F2-95E556EB0C1D.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Side note - the 6 in the date is raised significantly higher than the rest of the date. I did a quick survey of other examples and saw the same thing. Maybe that legendary Swiss quality control was not as tight as we thought <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Another coin form that group I&#039;ll post as a footnote, a 1934 10 rappen. This one was glued on the obverse/bust side and only the denomination side showing. It&#039;s a common coin, but you don&#039;t find too many in this shape, brilliant and almost P/L looking.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/9AA35A11-8F79-4A00-B8FA-D3A998171428.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/515B521C-06A9-4772-8EB4-C0C152C06626.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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