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Here's this challenge. Going to use a coin I just posted this last time this 1887 Great Britain 6 Pence. Here's the challenge. This is a commemorative coin (50-years of Vic's reign) and has been "enhanced" (modified, destroyed...whatever, not the point). What I am looking for is a colorized commemorative coin. Any country and denomination will do BUT the points will be as follows:  1 point for each color easily identified on this coin. Example coin has blue white and red for 3 points. 5 points for a material used to coat the coin. Example coin has a gold wash over silver content and an etched enamel surface for 10 points 10 points for any INLAID material, such as gold inlay designs (this is quite uncommon but was just exhibited on the forum recently) 8 points for the first coin of each Millennia to exhibit any of these features pre-BC-1BC, 1AD-999AD, 1000-1999AD, 2000's And 4 points will be given for any following Millennial coins after the first displayed Therefore the Example coin = 21 points You will have only one chance to enter a coin, so make your choices wisely. Object is to not just pick the oldest or newest, but the first of its Millennia with the most features.This could and should bring out some colorful and very interesting coins and "artifacts"  Let's set Monday evening at 10PM forum time as end game. Edited by Crazyb0
04/28/2018 01:54 am
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Congrats on the win Crazyb0!!
Looks like I'll be sitting this one out. I do not have any colorized coins anymore. That is unless a bullion coin with a hologram on one side counts.
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yea, guess you'd have to say the hologram is a different material used, it altered the coin, but is indistinguishable to a specific color! See, this can be easy....maybe....  Edited by Crazyb0
04/28/2018 02:52 am
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I don't have any colourised coins, so I will be sitting this one out.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Nothing colorized here either unfortunately.  Wait. where are my model paints? Looking forward to the entries though. Edited by chafemasterj
04/28/2018 05:05 am
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Let's make it that it doesn't have to be a commemorative coin, any coin of color, non-discriminatory! Different material on a coin.....1943 steel cent....brown.....rust Or Split plating on a zinkin....that grayish powder inlaid within the cavity |
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Congratulation Crazyb0.   |
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Does an original wash of another metal count, i.e. done at the mint?
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Numisma, if you are referring to a Platinum or gold plating we'll have to count it, my example was gold washed, not really plated but yea, one different metal on the original. Even Juanito's YouTub garage coatings will count! Let's see some color!
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All right. I don't believe I have any colorized coins, so this is probably about the best I can do. I don't expect to win, but figure I may as well participate. This is a bronze antoninianus of Aurelian, struck at Siscia between the fall of 272 and the spring of 274. The original tin wash, applied at the mint, is intact.   0 color points  5 points for tin wash 0 inlay points 8 points for the first coin from the first millenium Total: 13 |
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Yes indeedy! That was one of the coins I had in mind, the silver/tin washes of the RICs! I have a silvered Diocletian, yours is in excellent condition, nice!
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  OK, here we have a colorized UK 1887 6 pence. Scoring, if I am doing it correctly: first one of the millennium 1000-1999: 8 coatings: gold, enamel, and glass over the whole thing (a little hard to see in the picture): 12 points colors: blue, red, green, purple and yellowish: 5 So I count 25 points |
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Here's my only colorized coin -- it's part of my "coins with gimmicks" subcollection: Canada, 25 dollars, 2015:   I count 3 painted-on colors (presumably not enamel, maybe spray paint), and it's the 2nd coin from the 2000s posted for this challenge. I guess this means it's worth 7 points? Edited by pepactonius
04/29/2018 09:06 am
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Wow Pepactonius. That coin is really cool. Dare I say beautiful even.
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