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Valued Member
Germany
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 I was calaloging this coin recently when I discovered that it doesn't seem to be the official colouring. The others I've seen have a natural coloured goose and a Finnish flag in the background. Is this a different type, or did the company I bought this from mess with it. (If so, no big loss, I paid 2 Euros for it, and it would still work in a vending machine.  )
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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Right, that is a third party colored piece. Strictly speaking, it has been altered and is no longer legal tender. But apparently quite a few collectors like such pieces, so you might as well keep it, or give it to somebody as (part of) a present ...
What is a little more difficult, by the way, is euro circulation (and commemorative €2) coins that were colored by the producing mint. The KNM in the Netherlands does that from to time, especially in time for a World or Euro Football Cup. ;) So a regular 10 cent coin will be partly colored, and then sold as an "oranje geluksdubbeltje" - orange is the color of the Royal House, and used on various occasions where people root for the king or the team. Even those pieces are not legal tender, as they do not meet the specifications. But at least they are sold above face, so hardly anybody will want to spend them at face. That could be different in the case of your piece ...
Christian
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 Germany
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Thanks for the info chrisild - With Canada doing lots with coloured circulation coins I wondered if Europe was following suit.
Do you know anything about German 10 Euro NCLT colored or gilded pieces? I have a Gorch Foch 2008 KM 274 where the ship is gilded and a Snow White 2013 KM 321 with a coloured apple that seem to be coloured/gilded in the mint.
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Germany has not done anything like that; all our €10 coins (ich bin auch aus Deutschland) are monochrome pieces. Now when it comes to collector coins - which are legal tender in the issuing country only - , there are some colored pieces. Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France ... probably more. Then there are silver-niobium pieces from Austria and Luxembourg. But the Gorch Fock and Snow White coins from Germany have definitely been gilded or colored by third parties. Sometimes the effect is actually nice, but if you wanted to sell them later ...
Christian
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Netherlands
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The Dutch Mint did issue indeed colirized coins:
2 euro combicolorset '200 years' kingdom' 2013 in proof
2 euro combicolorset doubpleportrait 2014 in proof
10 cent 2012 in coincard (orange, lucky penny)
10 cent 2014 in coincard (orange lucky penny)
And commemorative 5 eurocoins combicolorsets 'piece of utrecht', 'tulip' and dutch bank
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Thanks Christian and collectcoins - I will have to be more wary of the 10€ for 10€ "deals" from BTN.
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Posted 05/31/2014 2:47 pm
