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Three reasons, that I can think of.
(1) Because they can.
(2) To make "art".
(3) To make money by selling it to the ignorant for far more than it cost them to make it.
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
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Bedrock of the Community
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Actually, the British in Victorian G.B. had a penchant for miniature art, which included enamelled coins.
Some of the best ones can command a reasonable premium at auction.
Cloisonne art is related. Google Images can provide some nice images of both.
IMO, the enamelling of a coin takes the item out of the realm of numismatics and into that of art.
Edited by sel_69l
07/09/2012 02:28 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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they look like stickers to me as the letters do not line up correctly on the Reverse so one could probably peel off the stickers and see what was underneath them
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Pillar of the Community
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I've seen some colorized coins in my day... but that one is *ugly*.
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Pillar of the Community
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They made Liberty look like Rue McClanahan. Now I can't look at a Morgan without thinking that.
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Pillar of the Community
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Some enameled coins such as those mentioned by Sel can be quite nice. This one is not!
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Bedrock of the Community
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There is good and bad art----beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Well, at the very least someone could get it at below melt  . And that is what should be done to this one,she not pretty. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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It makes Anna look like a floozy. I'll defend her Honor.  |
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Rest in Peace
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Might be too ugly to even get below melt.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I think it looks kind of neat! Or should I say groovy?
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Bedrock of the Community
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There IS a differnce between pad printing onto coins and the hand enamelling of coins.
For pad printing to work the skill of a mint is needed to produce the high quality of NCLT issues.
Equally, there is a tremendous amount of talent and skill needed to produce high quality enamelling on coins.
Consider some of the works of Faberge.
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Pillar of the Community
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IF that had been attractive work, it would have made for a neat con. I have seen many enameled and lazered coins that look absolutely awesome. Its a common date Morgan, so why not? Just that thing looks awful.
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Pillar of the Community
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this one looks really bad almost like a bad cartoon plus the fact its a 1921 makes it even less attractive haha
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It does look like Rue McClanahan  The eyeshadow is bad. I have a colorized ASE but it looks much better than this one. |
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Posted 07/09/2012 02:22 am
