Hello Museum-L

   I work for the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center, and
one of my co-workers has run into a problem that I am hoping some of you can
help us solve.

   While taking apart aome broken shadowboxes, we ran into some papal coins
that were mounted on wooden pegs with what looks like rubber cement.  We
have managed to get the pegs off f the shadowboxes, but we can't get them
off of the coins.  We thought about just trying to pry the coins free, but
many of them have engraving under the glue, and we don't want to destroy
that.  We also don't want to scratch the surface of the coins.  If anyone
has any suggestions on how to remove the glue and the wooden pegs without
damaging the coins it will be greatly appreciated.  Thank You.

Brent Stauffer
Archives Technician

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