Someone posted one of these awhile back and I just found this yesterday while doing a bank box. The conversation went towards stickered and I mentioned enameled and got some laughs. I can tell you it is enameled or painted but def. not stickered. And a very bad job of it as was the other one. Those little pixels of red and the black against the green would lend you think stickered but it's just not so.
With all those dots showing, it looks like a very low resolution print. Which would lead me to believe it was stickered.
I tried best as I could to get my finger under it but to no avail. It certainly looks that way as you describe. I have wondered if there might possibly be some type of machine that this could be done with. It's really not all that important but does get my curiosity piqued.
The RCM does it with some of their coins. I am sure there is a method to do it. Perhaps not stickered perse, but definitely printed and not enameled.
I could use acetone but think I'll just toss it back into the wild and let someone else have fun with it.
Hey I have some of those. I catch one every now and then for crhing Thought it my be from some hsn sales of state coin or something.... I guess? It’s? A? Collection???? I thought I might try and get all 50 states...
It's like a paint but it's printed on the coin in a machine so technically some kind of ink. It's why it's perfectly round and sometimes doesn't line up right. I dunno the machine but it's basically a printer that colors them. Some of them are really crude like they were done dot matrix, Other's look like model paint but it's the same type of process. I don't think anyone is hand painting them.
She makes me help her with the equipment......... I've learned so much that I've even begun digitizing coins....still a work in progress though.
Whatever it turns out to be (sticker, painted, plated, etc.) I don't like it. I'll bet it was painted on and then cured hard by baking/heating it up. I've done that with car parts when I painted something with high temperature spray paint. Once it's painted, I stick the piece in the oven and get it up to about 200 degrees and then take it out and cool it off. The paint becomes rock hard because of that. I'm betting they did the same thing with these. Paint was baked on, even perhaps powder coated processed. All indications are it wasn't done at the mint.
On one of those cold nights his wife taught him how to make those neat colorized coins. Sorry @green18 I just couldn't help myself.
Thanks for all of the replies and ideas folks. It went back into a roll today and I deposited it at the bank.