It is possible save this coin?

winter

Heavy glued with epoxy to the wooden plaque

ricko

It can be removed using acetone or Goo-Gone to dissolve the glue. However, that may also discolor the wood. Your choice.... Cheers, RickO

291fifth

Folk Art. It would be better to leave it as is and head for Antiques Road Show.

Treashunt

The lacquer can't be removed without affecting the coin

Lazybones

Not worth the effort for a 21 Morgan. Best to leave it as "folk art."

gumby1234

Probably not worth saving it. Worth more how it is. I would leave it on the plaque

Meltdown

A plain jane 1921 Morgan? Leave it alone as the others have stated. It's much cooler paired with that carved eagle than popped out and "conserved".

JBK

Agree with all the above.

If you are looking to sell it for bullion then you can just rip it out of there, but that would be the only reason.

It's value now is in the folk art carving.

BillJones

Circulated 1921 Morgan Dollars are super common. It would be best to leave this alone and buy another one.

sellitstore

Why? You don't like the wooden eagle with three-fingered old man hands?

PerryHall

If you remove it you'll ruin that plaque and possibly the coin. Sell it as folk art and use the money to buy a slabbed silver dollar.

TomB

It is what it is...

brocmitchell

Many, many moons ago I bought a lot of 3 CC dollars off eBay for about $50 each that had glue, varnish and WOOD CHUNKS adhered to the coins. The story was that they were once attached to a wood table and someone had removed them not so delicately, probably with a chisel. Apparently after getting the coins off the table, the same someone tried to use a rotary tool to remove the debris but luckily seemed to stop before TOO much damage was done, The glaring swirl marks from the steel rotary brush were however etched into the surface where the attempts had been made.

When I received them, I soaked them in acetone until all the wood and gunk was cleared, for a few days in total to loosen that hard varnish and wood glue. After this is where I will have to ask for forgiveness from the coin gods... I put them into a rock tumbler with a handful of mixed environmentally damaged coins, black buffalo nickels, green coppers and the like and let it run for about two hours at a time until the surfaces were cooled down. The gunk from the other coins had the effect of imparting decent-looking aged color and the tumbling smoothed out the damage from the Dremel and chisel. I was able to then list them at auction as harshly cleaned, polished, damaged, etc. and they sold for quite nice money after such an effort, time well spent and in my opinion, a service to the coins as they went from literal junk to decent hole fillers. The dates were 1892-CC 1893-CC and 1881-CC as I recall and the coins were F-VF in detail. After all this time I still wonder what the table might have looked like and if it would have been better to be left alone as a piece of art or if the value of the "fixed" coins exceeded the artistic value of the original piece. It must have been fairly old or the craftsman utterly ignorant of coin values... The world will never know. In any case, imagine the odds of three such dates being selected for a piece of folk art! Subsequently, I didn't see any other examples come up from the seller so I can't be sure whether these were the only three or if they wised up and did something other than sell any remainders for peanuts.

The moral of the story, to reiterate sentiments previously shared, better to leave this piece as it is! I am sure there are many a coin dealer or collector out there that would enjoy adding this to the wall of oddities in the (wo)man cave or display wall at the shop!

winter

Thanks for all responses. I will leave a one art folk piece.