Sacagawea Dollars With Paint Noticeably Not Lined Up

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LaceyOlander New Member United States 0 Posts	Posted 04/02/2012 12:24 am I have Liberty and Sacagawea dollars, both of them colorized. The paint seems to not be properly lined up with the letters and picture. I was wondering if this would raise the value? Any information would be very much appreciated. Edited by LaceyOlander 04/02/2012 12:38 am Report this Post to the Staff

mitchhailey Pillar of the Community United States 1150 Posts	Posted 04/02/2012 01:58 am Welcome to the site, Lacey! I don't think any value would be added to your coins for the colorization to be off a bit. To be honest, the colorization thing is a gimmick used primarily by Home Shopping Network coin hustlers to pass off coins as 'investments' when they aren't. Colorized coins can be enjoyable to look at and that is where they derive their worth, but most collectors view the paint to be post-mint-damage that adds no monetary value to the coin itself. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16810 Posts	Posted 04/02/2012 02:30 am Since the colorization was done privately, outside the mint, errors in it are unlikely to attract collector interest. For coins of other countries where the mints themselves apply the colouration, such as Australia, colouration errors are much more interesting. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 04/02/2012 04:46 am to CCF Lacey, you have joined a great forum. I agree with both posts and would add collect what you like. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187934 Posts	Posted 04/02/2012 1:50 pm to the Community! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
biokemist6 Bedrock of the Community United States 12437 Posts	Posted 04/02/2012 2:55 pm The colored applications are not done by the US Mint so it does not affect the value at all. However, most collectors consider such things to be altered coins and would not consider them to be worth more than $1 anyway. As Sap mentioned, many world mints do create colorized coins and some of them are high quality and eye appealing. For US issues, the private marketers tend to be a bit sloppy as you have noticed and that tends to add to the dislike of them. Report this Post to the Staff
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