Does anyone know a simple way to remove gilt from a silver coin?
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Or someone who can do it without the destroying the surfaces?
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Just tell it that it's okay not to be gold...the guilt will be gone.
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If by gilt you mean gold plated, I know of no way to remove it without hurting the surfaces of the coin.
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"The surfaces", in terms of the original surface which the silver coin used to have prior to being gilded, are already destroyed. The coin would most likely have been chemically cleaned prior to the electroplating or whatever technique was used to apply the gilding. And if it's real gold and the plating happened some time ago, then some of the gold has likely migrated into the silver and vice-versa, leaving the question of "exactly where the original surface used to be" up for debate.
I don't think it's possible to remove gold-plating or gilding from a silver coin and end up with a coin that doesn't "look cleaned".
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I have read that some Fort Vancouver commemorative half dollars where gilded at the time of issue. Despite that fact that it may have had some quasi-official aspects to it, the gild is still viewed as damage.
I used to work in an industrial plating shop 40 years ago. I know of no way to remove gold from silver without significant damage to the silver. Gold is a noble metal - silver is not.
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Thanks all for your input. Would a grading service ever say unc details gilted?
Gilding or plating would qualify as "altered surfaces", which should get a details grade and a slab.
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Thanks will submit it then. Is definitely unc details
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What kind of coin is it?
That coin looks like it circulated subsequent to being gold plated. Since gold coins were still in circulation in the early 1800's, I wonder if someone gold plated that silver 8 Reals coin to pass it as a gold 8 Escudos coin. There was an elderly gentleman who sold coins at the local flea market who showed me a 1 oz Mexican gold coin that he bought. I hated to tell him that it was a 1 oz silver coin that had been gold plated. He was a genuinely nice guy who played coin dealer to keep busy and to be with other people in his golden years.
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Would it be feasible to clean it with acetone and then lightly silver plate it over the gold plating and then artificially tone it and age it? It wouldn't fool a professional grader or an experienced coin collector, but at least it would look more natural, and it may be easier to sell with full disclosure of course.
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That’s a thought. It has tremendous detail and the gold plating seems very light