That's my very obvious assumption, and the seller would need to provide me with incontrovertible proof that is is genuine, to have even the slightest chance of selling it of me.
I don't think that it's actually "paint" that is missing .... it's a sticker or decal. I've heard it called a "pad", but to me it's something just essentially glued on.
These colour coins are pad printed om the coin, at a RCM master club meeting a few years ago at Fort York got to meet a RCM chief designer, and asked him some questions, the colour coins are all sent to a US firm to do this process
Use a Q-tip with acetone Zonad, in about two minutes of rubbing with several acetone-soaked Q-tips, I was able to reproduce what the seller listed. Jaime now has it in his "fabrications" teaching set.
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First - that NZ video shows why the quality of modern coins is so bad - they are just stamping widgets without any regard to the quality of strike.
Second - that is not how coloured coins are made in Canada. I will only say that if it was the same, we would not have offcentred fully coloured coins. RCM does not use pads.
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