Knowing how thick the metal is would help us a lot in understanding what you have, is it fine like powder or foils or thick like a wire a bar, or beads...
Pictures may help.
Rolling it thin as suggested should help to get more of the tin in the alloy exposed to acids.
After removing as much tin as possible using HCl.
I mentioned earlier a fusion as a possible way to deal with the tin.
Another idea is to use the concentrated sulfuric acid electrolytic stripping cell to separate the gold and tin alloy
A thought when going forward to dissolve the gold, I would probably look into using some other oxidizer with HCl than using nitric acid (to make aqua regia) to dissolve the gold, like using bleach or H2O2 as the oxidizing agent with the HCl acid.
You may not see any color change or much of a reaction at all, besides maybe some tiny bubbles, tin chloride solution will be clear or tin in solution will not change the looks of your acid.
In an alloy, only where the acid can come into direct contact with the tin atoms (on the surface of the metal) is the only place you can dissolve the tin from the alloy, where the tin is hidden under a shell of gold atoms (gold which is unreactive to the acid) and the acid cannot reach the tin then it cannot dissolve those tin atoms.