elaine 1970

currently a lot of colorized coins produce from canada, australia and great britain. it look very attractive. but for us, the collectors. we are not yet adopted to it. maybe the young generation will. my imagination is that maybe another 100 years. all circulated and commemorative coins will be colorized. and all the plain or no color coinage will become special and expensive for collectors. do you think so?. place your comment. thanks.

ps. also if you have those new colorized coins. let us see...

coleguy

I sure hope not all future coins will be colored, at least not in the sense that most are colored today. If they want to have contrasting colors, they should do it tastefully by using different metals, alloys, and a combination of both to produce varying colors, and not resort to tacky looking paint jobs. They must have some idea that most collectors don't buy colored coins, and that the public could care less so long as it's spendable.
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itsallngoodtime

I agree don't like them or want them. I see them sell for almost nothing at auctions, most of the time it they do sell it's for face or less if they combine lots together.
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Cloudsweeper99

I wouldn't expect there to be circulation coins in 100 years.

elaine 1970

that might be correct. and maybe the young generation won't continue collecting coins.

RWB

Expensive to do, not permanent, easily altered and usually ugly. Now the reasons against....

De Orc

Well as a collector of British coins the only colorized one I have seen recently is the £5 silver proof for the Olympics in 2012 and then it is only the Olympic logo that is color I might or might not buy one for myself at Xmas LOL

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Billy Kingsley

I have one, not a big fan of it, however, it was a gift.

If they were done with different metals or things like that, then I don't have a problem with it. I would actually say it's pretty cool....there are a lot of metals out there that could be utilized for coinage, but as of yet is not.

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elaine 1970

why so few people collect colorized coins?. it is very attractive and beautiful. specially the 50 statehood quarters.

AlexN2coins2004

why do you think this?

those colorized coins out there with the cheeply done paint jobs on them are not close to being a collectable unless the one doing so is also collecting pokemon and or yugioh cards and other merchandise of the same

they certainly will not be worth anything more then the face value and anyone putting money into buying them for more then face value is throwing perfectly good money away

I agree with the idea of using different colored metals to make such coins but the slap a paint job on a coin is silly and just a way to waste your money and the person trading/buying it

hontonai

Whoa! Hang on there! Just a minute!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but CoinTalk is a numismatic forum, not a souvenir collector's gabfest!

So hold on young lady - colorized state quarters are not mint products.

They are altered coins, and whatever they may be worth to souvenir collectors, their numismatic value is zilch!

So far, at least (thank goodness), the US Mint has not followed in the footsteps of the Japan Mint, so unlike the 47 Provinces series, the 50 State Quarters (and their extension the District/Territory Quarters) leave the mint as unpainted metal.

BTW what am I missing about this topic? So far as I am aware the US Mint has never issued a colorized coin, or threatened to do so. All the mint-produced colorized coins are from other countries, so why was this thread placed (and allowed by the Mods to remain) in the US Coins forum rather than either Coin Chat or World and Ancient?

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RWB

Tacky...IMHO

green18

Bi-metalic, yay. Colorized, nay....

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elaine 1970

i like the perth mint of australia. they produce a lot of colorized coins. those were very attractive and beautiful. but the problem is the price. too high i guess.

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