So what do you think about colored coins?

For some time I have in disgust observed all the colorized bullion coins mass produced by so many mints around the world, and have been thankful this color plague haven`t infected the world of circulation coins. So you can imagine the horror when I recently discovered that Canada (who else? ) started to mint colored coins for circulation in 2007! Oh come on! Colored coins!!? Hasen´t Canada done enough harm to the world of coin collecting already?

Whit all this garbage beeng mintet I`m really thinking about stop collecting Canadian coins.

Any way: what do you think about colored coins? :kewl:

 

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Great for marketing and sales, bad for collectors.

 

thay look weard

 

bigger pics

 

hmm - OK - I'll bite. Why?

Ruben

 

Great 4 marketing n sales cause they are different and the unusual will attract buyers n new collectors. Bad for collectors cause once newbies find out they are considered damaged, most likely they would feel ripped and not collect again. This was b4 I saw your post on $100 colorized though. I frequently change my mind on things due to new info.

 

Oh - well yeah the ones from Collectors Corner TV clap Trap...

I didn't mean those.

Ruben

 

I was just looking at the Canadian Royal Mint website and they are Bizzare? Are they a government agency or in business?

That 1,000,000 coin? What do you do with a 100 kilos of GOLD?

Ruben

 

Sit on it and hope prices go up.

 

they have some weird and not that attractive stuff.

Ruben

 

Bi-metalic is really what I would like to see......

 

they look like play moneys
some kind of board game tokens

 

Sorry, I don´t have a larger picture, and I don´t want one either

 

Oh, you never know when 100 kilos of gold comes in handy

The Royal Canadian Mint is a perverse hybrid between a federal agency and Wal-Mart.

 

Personally, I find the Royal Canadian Mint's offerings gimmicky and ridiculous, but that's just me. I don't think the RCM has done any harm, nor has the US Mint or any other.

Personally, I don't care for colored coins, though I can see why some do. If others like it, that's cool by me. To each his own.

There's plenty of room in this hobby for all tastes.

 

They're pretty hokey.

 

In did, It's just that completing a set of circulating canadian coins becomes uninteresting to me when they start minting all this bad taste stuff.

 

In did

 

Don't really like colored coins, and I certainly do not appreciate "third party post-production colorizing" as shown in the initial post. Bimetallic pieces - e.g. golden ring, silverish pill - I find neat, but coins that look "painted" ... nah.

Christian

 

those do. They are post production painted

.................and all blue..........