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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My girl works at world biggest fast-food chain as a manager and after her shift she have to count every penny the store made for the day before report and put in the safe So she always bring some silver home as you can see on the picture the silver lot she brought during last week and together 2 reverse painted Sacagawea coins ! The reason I made this topic is I want ask you guys who painted these dollar coins ? They coming from the mint like that or is a thirty part painting job ? Thanks in advance !    Edited by Ricardocody
03/24/2011 09:39 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A Third party company is doing the colorizing. The U.S. mint doesn't produce them in color. Oftentimes companies with sell different colorized sets ( State Quarters etc...) Most people don't like them and there isn't much of a value over face on these (unless you find the rare person who likes them and might pay a bit more for them). These actually don't look too bad like some of the other colorized coins look, but most people are not a fan of these things. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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never been a fan of colored coins
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 It's sadly categorized as PMD in numismatics when they do that. Novice's and Newbies are their only buyers generally. And there are enough of those to keep them selling year after year after year.....  Congrats on having the Silver delivered to you each week ! .....  ....  ....  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The trend to color coins is growing and they DO SELL. They are advertised on TV, newpapers, magazines, etc. Lately I saw colorized bills too. If this continues I'm sure the Mint will start making them also and then they would just have to be accepted. Those colorized coins sell really well, unfortunately. Maybe not by coin collectors but they are a minority and the masses that do buy stuff like that, also buy all kinds of things advertised on TV.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Marketers sell them inferring that they are something that they are not;
Rare and valuable collectibles.
If someone likes them because they are pretty, go for it but these hacks on TV....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I understand totally about the colorzing defacing the coin's surface in a way but there is another way to look at it- as art. Some of these colorizations are truly impressive and stunning to see. It takes incredible patience, often with a microscope or magnifier to get the details on these coins looking like that. Personally I think you are buying them not for numismatics sake, but for art/creativity sake. As an aside, look at how popular Hobo Buffalo nickels- those are all defacements of Buffalo nickels that are art. |
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United States
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"As an aside, look at how popular Hobo Buffalo nickels- those are all defacements of Buffalo nickels that are art." At least that took some talent to create, painting coins is just a joke. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Those dollars look like they were sold by Littleton Coin Co..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If someone is individually hand painting them, I would agree they would classify as art. The ones that are mass-produced by the Franklin Mint and others...not so much.
These are actually kind of attractive - especially like the one on the far right. I'd hang on to that one, even if it isn't really valuable.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I see a lot that are more banged up. Those are nicely colored!
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United States
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Strange that these would be found in circulation. I'm wondering if "Little Johnny" got into dad's coin collection.
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