Great brittan penny

lmking304

Can some one tell me what happened to my penny? Can you scratch bronze so much it turns silver?

theboz11

Looks like it was heated and lead or solder applied to the surface.

Rickc300

To me it looks like solder on the coin... Here is a picture of a 20 pfennig before I tried to remove the solder, after I heated the solder it flowed all over the coin giving it a silver plated appearance. Unfortunately I don't have an after photo of it, I think I got disgusted and tossed it out in the yard to find with a metal detector someday...

Rick

lmking304

That's awesome

olmanjon

I have two 1896 five centavos and one 1896 ten centavo with solderered parts of ear rings on the back. Any way to get this off without ruining the coin? These coins book at 35-40 each.

lordmarcovan

No, I'd leave 'em as-is. Once they've been made into jewelry and their numismatic value has been compromised, they're usually better off remaining jewelry, and hopefully retaining some value as jewelry. If you try to "fix" them, you'll just have substandard coins. I would rather have an interesting piece of old coin jewelry than a substandard coin that's been semi-repaired.

Of course, if the jewelry mounts are gone, and you just have soldered spots, then you're in that unpleasant middle ground. You could either try removing the solder, which is bound to be tricky and not completely successful, or you could refurbish them as new jewelry by adding new mounts or whatever.

lathmach

Ummmmm...................
You need to go to the hardware store and buy a solder sucker and a wick, rickc300.
Use the solder sucker first to get off what you can, then wick off the rest.
The guys at the hardware store can tell you how to desolder.
Or, go on the internet for instructions.

Ray

7Jaguars

Yes, that would be more on the order of a high school experiment as the particular coin itself would not exactly be worth the time and effort.

7Jaguars

OK, this would be a high school type of experiment but the coin itself not necessarily worth all of that effort. Always fun to play though...

olmanjon

Thanks guys for all the info. As they are they are in a junk box with no value at all. only the solder spots are on two and clips are on two. If nothing else they will fill a hole(no pun intended) until I can get the real mccoy in better condition.