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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 63687, member: 669&quot;]Welcome to the forum Curly. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Do you by any chance think that colorized coins come that way from the Mint?</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually there are literally hundreds of companies that take perfectly good coins and slap paint on them to match their own ideas of something &quot;cool&quot; or &quot;collectible&quot;.&nbsp; Your unsuccesful internet search for an exact duplicate just leads me to believe that yours wasn&#039;t made by one of the several big outfits that push them on TV home shopping shows, or in weekly &quot;news&quot; magazine ads; but by one of the many, many smaller producers.</p><p><br /></p><p>There really is no &quot;standard&quot; colorization pattern, although many times the same colors will be applied by more than one producer.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Most</i> serious numismatists ignore colorized coins as gimmicks, and many consider them worthless.&nbsp; Personally, I recognize that a colorized quarter is always worth 25¢ (unless it is Canadian, in which case it is worth less than US20¢. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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