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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JrCoin, post: 651843, member: 18390&quot;]<b>$$$?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>All the colorized coins I&#039;ve seen in person looked bad.&nbsp; Hand painted ASEs, photo transfers, they did not seem very appealing.&nbsp; Of course the thing these coins had in common was this process was added after the manufacture.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I agree that the Perth Mint, Cook Islands, and Canada do have some attractive looking colorized coins...that I&#039;ve never seen in person.&nbsp; They are also terribly imo overpriced.&nbsp; I&#039;d love to have a Botticelli Cook Islands Birth of Venus coin, I&#039;m just not interested in pay $400.00 for that privilage.&nbsp; I also have doubts that the reproduction quality holds up under magnification very well on such a small surface.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>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)... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Perhaps mechanically toned coins like those from the Canadian Dinosaur series would fair better.&nbsp; It seems like 3rd party artificially toned coins fair well on fleabay at least.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you are interested in more colorful art there are better mediums for it.&nbsp; Many people are art collectors: oil paintings, framed photographs, i dare not try to list them all.&nbsp; I particularly like sculpture, and our beloved A.A. Weinman was very skilled at that very craft.&nbsp; Someday I would love to tour different locations of such art and photograph it personally.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The collector side of me says that if you like a coin you should collect it.&nbsp; The pragmatic investor side says that $400.00 is an awful lot of money for a modern colorized silver coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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