I recently purchased a colorized Ohio statehood quarter for my collection, but when I tried to look it up on line, it doesn't show any examples of the one that I have. The one that I currently own is colorized on both sides, has the design for the colorized DOLLAR of the Space Shuttle Columbia tilted in a diagonal course to the right and the dates of April 12,1981 and below that the date February 1, 2003 to the right of the shuttle. Above the shuttle it says "SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA" and below the shuttle it says "American Heroes of Space". On the obverse side of the coin that would be the "tails" side it has the usual colorization for the standard colorized quarter with the "BIRTHPLACE OF AVIATION PIONEERS" slogan the outline of the state of Ohio with the state depicted in blue, the state name OHIO at the top and 1803 just below the state name, as well as 2002 printed at the bottom of the picture. I just don't understand why I can't find another like it online, why does the shuttle patter picture only appear on the $1 coins like this and not show as appearing on the quarters of Ohio in the colorized statehood collection or in the commemorative coins for the Space Shuttle Columbia collection? If anyone can help me solve this mystery, please let me know. Thank you.
It has been panted and therefor has no value...if you can post a photo if might help know more about it. Speedy
...except to a collector of such oddities. Let's try and remember the little people.... the ones who don't always collect the mainstream. ~AJ
Welcome to the forum Curly. Do you by any chance think that colorized coins come that way from the Mint? Actually there are literally hundreds of companies that take perfectly good coins and slap paint on them to match their own ideas of something "cool" or "collectible". Your unsuccesful internet search for an exact duplicate just leads me to believe that yours wasn't made by one of the several big outfits that push them on TV home shopping shows, or in weekly "news" magazine ads; but by one of the many, many smaller producers. There really is no "standard" colorization pattern, although many times the same colors will be applied by more than one producer. Most serious numismatists ignore colorized coins as gimmicks, and many consider them worthless. Personally, I recognize that a colorized quarter is always worth 25¢ (unless it is Canadian, in which case it is worth less than US20¢.
You might want to check with the company that colorized the quarter. If you have any literature with the coin, it should let you know what the company name is. From there you can goodle the companies info and see what you can find online, or call the company directly. Hope this helps
