Gold Coin on the Bay!! Did Someone Copper Enamel On It??

Couldn't have said it better!

 

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I agree, ........nah. Although it would work as gold is inert to it. Still, without having a fume hood in your workshop I wouldn't mess with it.

 

American ingenuity at it's best for over 100 years.


Egyptian Magic Coin, manufactured in the early 1900's, colors added by hand.

 

Quite agree. Some of those are clearly labors of love, and display tremendous, almost microscopic expertise.

 

Some of these are really nice. It took some skill to do this type of work. I wouldn't want to see it done to a rare coin but, common coins would be ok. Modern versions aren't done the same way. Some are just stickers.

 

I wouldn't try and remove the enamel. Typically they rougher or scratch up the surfaces to be enameled to allow the enamel to get a better "grip" on the coin. If you remove it you are left with the scratched up surfaces.

 

Make no mistake about it...enamelled coins are damaged....coins...as are love tokens,and encased coins etc... it was the every day mans answer to a time when even a dime was a lot of money,and to have a coin enamelled or carved for a sweetheart was like going to Jared Jewlers today.
Once enamelled there's no going back to a coin before the process.
These do bring a nice premium in the right market.
If I were to sell the one I just obtained it be on Ebay Ca, or ebay UK, as the collector here in the states are few .

 

Those two I haven't ever seen,most probably are extremely rare....and ,most probably made in England.

 

Nice! I did not know about “enameled” coinage. Totally different process from the old painted coins. I remember going to coin shows in the mid 1970’s and about half the dealers had painted coins and the silhouette coins. The painted ones were usually walker halves and the silhouette’s were from mercury dimes or Kennedy halves.

 

Must of been a guy

 

I like the last one more better

 

Which one Cheech?

 

Believe me there's a huge difference, and the more colors the higher priced.
As the glass had to be layed perfectly and baked if not well lets say ruined.

 

These are painted not enemelled from my research.

 

I bought the colored Egyptian Magic Coin on Ebay from a seller located in Portugal.

 

The 1893 Half Crown. It jumps out at me

 

That was a very pretty coin ...you know they were worn as jewlery.

 

Maybe a bracelet or charm. Always gold or gems neck ware

 

More of a pin or broach.