I have a gold coin that was evidently once soldered to a ring. The coin is now seperated from the ring but has a little solder spot on it. Making it a peice of junk - no value.
I have a gold coin that was evidently once soldered to a ring. The coin is now seperated from the ring but has a little solder spot on it. Making it a peice of junk …
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As you know, solder is bonded to the coin byheat, so it’s probably going to take heat and flux to remove it. A jeweler is probably the best way!
take it to a jeweller and see what they say.
the solder will come off easily when warm.Try putting the coin in the oven —the gold will not melt there or use a soldering iron to warm the solder off .Also you could rub it off with some course rubbing down paper or emery cloth
You can find the wicking stuff the last guy was talking about at electronics stores, like Radio Shack. You heat up the piece until the solder flows, then touch the soldering mop type thing to the solder. It’ll flow off the coin and onto that. You may not be able to get it all off this way, but you’ll get most of it.
You should be able to just melt it off with a soldering torch. The gold has a higher melting point and shouldn’t be damaged if you are careful.
Heat it up with a soldering iron. Then, use wicking meterial, or a solder sucker to pull it off. The wicking stuff is like a mesh type wire, so to speak, and you just put the wick between the soldering iron and the solder and it will suck it up. You may need to do that a few times to get it all up.
The solder sucker isn’t as good as the wicking stuff, but it also works. If there is a lot, you could use the sucker to get most off, and then the wick to get the rest of it off.