sweet wheatz

one word "gaudy"

elaine 1970

magnificent.

mrbrklyn

I don't agree. I think, of course it matters which designs, but color, IMO, will be the future. The notion that it won't is thinking TV would remain BW,

Ruben

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RWB

Some people like them, some do not.

Those who do, will pay exorbitant prices for colorful trinkets of no lasting value. These are the same folks who buy “ballistic rolls,” gold foil wrapped nickels, Lincoln cents with state outlines stamped on them, gold plated state quarters, and the like. They will enjoy them for a while, then lose interest. When they try to sell they will be disappointed to learn the trinkets are worth face value, possibly less, and blame coin collectors for “cheating” them.

If you like them, then enjoy them for what they are.

elaine 1970

but some of them able to make money. maybe this things are for the future. who know.

JrCoin

All the colorized coins I've seen in person looked bad. Hand painted ASEs, photo transfers, they did not seem very appealing. Of course the thing these coins had in common was this process was added after the manufacture.

I agree that the Perth Mint, Cook Islands, and Canada do have some attractive looking colorized coins...that I've never seen in person. They are also terribly imo overpriced. I'd love to have a Botticelli Cook Islands Birth of Venus coin, I'm just not interested in pay $400.00 for that privilage. I also have doubts that the reproduction quality holds up under magnification very well on such a small surface.

My experience has told me that a colorized coin has limited appeal and therefore would be difficult to sell when the time comes (if not by me then by my heirs most likely)...

Perhaps mechanically toned coins like those from the Canadian Dinosaur series would fair better. It seems like 3rd party artificially toned coins fair well on fleabay at least.

If you are interested in more colorful art there are better mediums for it. Many people are art collectors: oil paintings, framed photographs, i dare not try to list them all. I particularly like sculpture, and our beloved A.A. Weinman was very skilled at that very craft. Someday I would love to tour different locations of such art and photograph it personally.

The collector side of me says that if you like a coin you should collect it. The pragmatic investor side says that $400.00 is an awful lot of money for a modern colorized silver coin.

JrCoin

I agree there will be more colorful currency in the future...American greenbacks aren't very green anymore...and have you seen the modern plastic bills? I could see the U.S. going plastic soon, they very much want a currency that is more durable than the current bills.

weryon

Neither would I , but you never know humans are as backwards as it gets..



Now as for colorized coins , I really don't like them much. They look way too tacky to me, maby put a pin on the back and wear it as jewelry I don't know. The closest thing I have to a colorized coin is this 2007 silver dollar from Canada. I will have to agree though that Canada makes very nice colorized coins, the RCM is renowned for producing quality pieces, but still I would never buy one but many do.... every time I go to my local coin shop there's a old dude buying one for his grandson or someone inquiring about them.

I prefer the older school stuff personally, but you know what they say : to each his own....

This is not my coin but I have the exact same one in a double silver dollar proof set.

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hontonai

Talk about overpriced - check out the many colorized ¥1,000 Japanese coins, beginning with the not-too-bad looking Heisei 15 (2003) Aomori Asian Winter Games commemorative,



through the gaudy double-dated Heisei 19/2007 International Skills Festival,



and the ghastly Kyoto entry in the on-going 47 Provinces series



to the latest release in the series, the reasonably attractive Niigata coin.

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JrCoin

I believe the original intent was speculation as to why the united states does not produce colorized coinage and whether or not this will happen in the future. It doesn't seem very likely, the U.S. for the longest time has sought ways to reduce the expense of minting coins, I find it difficult to believe colorized coinage would be cost effective for circulation.

That said, the modern coins seem to be taking on some, ahem, interesting fads in way of, um, tributes? I'm finding it difficult to describe what is going on with modern issues....they are still stuck on dead presidents, but there seems to be a desire to diversify subject matter. You could very well see collector oriented colorized issues from our mint soon, IF they proved profitable. I doubt they would, and I must say I'm a bit put off by the blatant commercialism of recent colorized coins.

For instance, I believe the Perth mint has two Transformers colorized silver coins issued for around $80 or so...if a mint is going to produce coins like that it should be child oriented to encourage the numismatic hobby for younger hobbyists, and priced accordingly. Children should have access to numismatic materials that would appeal to their interests and be obtainable on limited income, like an allowance. This would benefit the hobby more than expensive "collectable" garbage oriented towards "adults" who still behave like children.

I think it's a reasonable goal, and would give all this advertising an outlet. Afterall, most people allow their children to wallow in commercialism. All manner of consumables are branded with Disney or other licenced merchandise to appeal to a childs need to conform and fit in. In the 80's many children collected stickers in "albums" just to have a book full of pictures they liked. In fact wasn't there a colorized childs toy like what I'm talking about? Pogs I think...yeah I'm pretty sure that's it.

So the Perth mint is making $80 pogs now. Huh.

9roswell

my sister bought me a colored sac. paint just peeled off after a couple years. i think they're junk. JMO

elaine 1970

sorry to hear about that. i think i will not buy them. but i will appreciate their beauty.