What Are Your Thoughts On Coloured Coins?

Wretched gimmicks aimed at the mass "collectibles" market.

Coloured Canadian coins are nice and last a long time. Eg. The 2011 coloured Canadian Parks quarters are still seen in circulation and have been holding up well.

Not something I would collect.
Any I get in my change I give to my granddaughter
who collects coins.

I will collect one of each type found in circulation.
There are currently about 6 types of coloured $2 coins released into Australian circulation so far.
That's a good way of collecting commemorative coins at face value.

The colours should stand up well to circulation wear, because the colours are only in small incuse parts of each design type.

IF they are in wide circulation as the Australian $2 coloured commemorative coins are,
I do not consider them 'gimmicky'.

I am a big fan of west coast / salish aboriginal art and I love the series they did with the quarters both with and without colour...

I say what ever grabs the attention of youngsters and gets them to start collecting the better... and I can hardly call the coins that come from the RCM which are made for circulation as "granny bait" when they're obtained at face value...

- the stuff the produce for the boutique (NCLT) that's a whole different ball of wax in my opinion

Other than the 2004 Poppy the colours hold up well.

At least they're something to look for in my change since ARP has pretty much destroyed that aspect of the hobby in Canada.

I would assume that the Americans here are referring to their own after-market colored coins, hence the gimmick comment. But the Canadian coins are done differently, from the mint itself. I personally keep them all as savings and put aside the MS ones.

Ones I don't like: Breast Cancer coin (color fades quickly), 2010 Remembrance Day poppy (looks like a Peak Freans cookie or lipstick with digital lining). The 2008 Armistice coin was almost a pleasant coin but it fades quickly, the white background looks out of place, and the black lining again was too digital in appearance.

Ones I like: 2015 Canada flag coin - the only thing that saves this coin is the texture in the flag itself (the waviness). Actually, the non-colored version looks amazing, up there in my favorite modern Canadian coins along with the beautifully designed 2006 Bravery coin (Best coin since 1967 animal series). I also like the 2011 Inuit animal series - a nice break from the usual red that the mint botches routinely.

In all, I think the added color looks much too pixelated. The 2010 Poppy coin came close to an actual smooth color but the black lines messed it up. It's my opinion that Canadian modern quarters are much too "busy", with too much going on to be beautiful. The mint got carried away with showing themes that they neglected to appeal to the eye. Regular coinage (the reverse sides) looks well designed while the newer coins just lack eye appeal because they have spacing issues, they don't enough field, and just show too much detail and make one squint. They're getting better at it, but how long do we have to suffer looking at horrible coins year after year... It's exhausting.

At first I wasn't a fan of circulation colourized coins. They've grown on me. I think it's a great way to get the kids into the hobby.