Future and modern colorized coinage.

future depend on the next generation. what the next generation want to collect. it look like they want modern coins. all those morgans and walkers will become classic collection.

 

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colorized coin is really a beautiful artistic coin. i like it very much. but i don't collect and buy it.

 

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.

 

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.
Bob

 

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

 

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?

 

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.

 

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

 

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