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Colored Eagle Painted Dress Designs

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 Posted 10/24/2008  10:45 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add market4u2 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I am looking for a good resource on information that can show me all the different designs that are painted on the of 2000 silver eagles, I have seen differnces in the amount and size of stars painted on and other color variations in the bust and bonnet of walking liberty , can someone please point me in the right directions. Thank You
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 Posted 10/24/2008  11:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

There is not a resource for that type of information because those are alterations that are not done by the US Mint. The Mint produces the bullion coins but many marketing companies sell "altered versions" for exorbitant amounts of money but the coloration/hologram/paint/whatever DOES NOT add any value to the coin. Most Silver Eagles sell for a small premium over silver value but alterations like that kill any numismatic value that they may have and then the only value they have is for the silver itself. I would recommend that you stay away from those products because they are a complete waste of money. It is one thing to buy them if they are close to the spot price of silver but I have seen places charge $40-50
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10/24/2008 11:47 am
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 Posted 10/24/2008  12:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TreasHunt to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There may be as many different designs as companies that colorized these pieces.

There is no market for different styles, but collect what ever pleases you.
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 Posted 10/25/2008  4:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ratio411 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here are my 99 colored ASEs.

I don't know that the color should vary much.
Liberty is draped in a flag, so red-white-blue
should be the colors. Maybe the breastplate
can vary some, as can what background is colored
vs what background is left natural.

Hope this helps some. These are the only colored
coins I have. Some folks love them, some hate them.

For the most part, true numismatists believe that this
sort of alteration to a coin is blasphemy.

Folks though, that collect neat stuff for the sport
of collecting old and neat stuff, not so much just
coins, tend to love them.
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10/25/2008 4:59 pm
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 Posted 10/25/2008  5:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wwhitman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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with ratio411
Collect what ya like!
Please note thou you collect these items because you like them, they probably will not be an investment(except for silver content).
Good luck and talk to ya later
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 Posted 10/25/2008  8:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DNA to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My favorite coin dealer was selling their painted or hologrammed ASE's for spot value as recently as last month (in the 'impaired coin' section!), but they have finally run out of them.

Technically, the plain 'bullion' no-mintmark A.S.E.'s aren't supposed to be 'collectible' coins anyway...

I wonder if some of the people who bought those 'impaired' A.S.E.'s cleaned off the paint/whatever and put them on ebay & Craigslist!
(It's not dishonest if it's stated that the coin is 'cleaned'!)

IMHO: Coins should look like metal. Paint the whole face of the coin, and it may as well be plastic under there. You wonder why companies like Merrick Mint don't just make plastic replica coins and paint them up! They'd look the same...



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