Future and modern colorized coinage.

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...

 

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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.
Guy~

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Tacky...IMHO

 

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

 

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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one word "gaudy"

 

magnificent.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

$$$?

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.

 

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.

 

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.