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US Mint ready to jump the shark... (Part deux) :)
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From CoinNews.net. Posted without comment.
coinnews.net:U.S. Mint Considering Colorized Coins
"The United States Mint is considering the use of colorization on this commemorative coin program," commented April Stafford, Director of the U.S. Mint’s Office of Design Management. "I stress the word ‘considering’."
DON'T EFFING DO IT! (I lied about the without comment thing... 
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Let's hope they don't consider it for long.
If the US Mint wants to colorize coins I don't care. I stopped buying their coins a long time ago.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
I have no problem with this. If you are a coin purist, you probably shouldn't be buying NCLT coins anyway. What's wrong with a little color?
The US mint can do whatever they want to do, I haven't bought anything from the mint in a bit over a decade now.
Mint products, mint decision.... Buy or do not buy - That is YOUR decision.....Cheers, RickO
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Come see 1,700lbs of stale, 18yr-old chocolate shaped like a moose.
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Does acetone take the color off?
I asked jokingly, but does it?
They jumped the shark long ago.
I knew it would happen.
The world is changing. Color is in vogue. Silver and gold are colors that the mint and congress/ legislators forgot, or can't remember.
This.
That.
Television programs and motion pictures used to be in black and white.
Now they are in color.
Live with it.
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Not if they use enamel like most other Mints.
I'm in that same camp.
If the mint wants to colorize coins, no problem whatsoever. They've done just about every other gimmick. I'm sure there will be buyers of an 'official U.S. government issued colorized coin'.
True. And people only like gold because it is yellow instead of "metallic silver" like most other metals.
C'mon, it's all just "merchandise" that they can make a buck on.
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My mind reader refuses to charge me....
Painted ASE's are culls. Buy your culls straight from the mint.
@tincup said:
If the mint wants to colorize coins, no problem whatsoever. They've done just about every other gimmick.
Although I don’t really disagree with this, for some reason, colorized coins seem particularly vulgar.
(Although I did buy one once-in Palau)
Nooooooooo!
Enhanced proof or unc is as far as I will go.
To all of the naysayers here...why does money have ANY design on it at all? Why isn't it just a bar of metall stamped with content and an assayers mark?
[Note: I'm not accepting "counterfeiting" as a response because then we would be using holograms or complex geometric designs.]
RE: "Why isn't it just a bar of medal stamped with content and an assayers mark?"
In effect, that's what the earliest coins were. Then people wanted to use them to promote their city, or king/queen, or point of view, or faith, or anything else.
What's next? Guitar shaped coins.
Someday if this madness gets bad enough it will come full circle and someone will have the brilliant idea to make a coin shaped coin.
I know. Which is why the "purists" aren't that pure. It's all just ornamentation.
"Ready to"? Some might say that ship has sailed.
Ricko is right. You no like... you no buy.
Exactly.
When the US Mint sees that this will NOT be a money maker, then they will NOT continue to make them the next year. They'll probably just come up with another inane idea.
It would be nice to see the US Mint reaching out to numismatic forums to test the waters on future ideas.
NO one is twisting anyone's arm to buy these things.
Just my 2 cents.
Chris
In the past, the Mint has sent surveys to people who have been customers....several forum members (including myself) have participated in these surveys. They are, however, a business...and as such, have a wide variety of customers....a small segment includes those who like unique (to them) or unusual coins... They are not numismatists as we understand the term, but they collect items that aesthetically please them or fit some aspect of life they enjoy (i.e. sports)....Such coins will have a market.... Cheers, RickO
1975 - "The Franklin Mint announced today that they will issue coins/medals representing all 50 states, the Presidents of the United States, first ladies, national parks and ceramic thimbles with birds on them."
When the U.S. Mint announces that they will be issuing ceramic thimbles as legal tender, you will know where they have been getting their ideas for the last 40 years.
Frankly, even if no one on this board buys any, I'm sure they will sell a ton. Worldwide NCLT is very popular with Main Street collectors. Just because...er...classicists on this board turn up their nose at it doesn't mean it doesn't sell.
My favorite coin buy of the last 5 years remains the Fiji Coke bottle cap. For $29.99, I have had a ton of fun with it. It still makes me laugh every time I look at it. I bought a 66 Saint that hasn't given me 1% the pleasure. I spent 5k on an MS64 bust dime that didn't give me 2% of the pleasure.
You make my 5 oz Apollo ashtray with an actual rocky finish and I just might buy one.
You make me a furry tiger coin and I might just buy one.
Scoff all you want, but there are lots of people that will just have fun with it.
THIS!
And there's nothing wrong with it. If someone gets more fun from collecting colorized animal coins from around the world than MS large cents, they should NOT buy MS large cents!
There's nothing wrong with considering the coins as simply ART!
If these things are not money makers, why do soooo many Mints around the world make such offerings?
You are 15 years late.
2004 Somali Republic $1 Guitar Enameled Coins
Anyhow, I am also guilty of collecting low budget colored coins. This was my most recent colored coin purchase.
Yes I knew about these. Hence the
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Egyptian Magic Coin, Colorized
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Will they ever top this 2009 issue? Highly doubtful.
Agreed!
I might be in favor-I'd have to see it/them first.
It's almost like the Mint wants to compete with the Post Office for the most junk/gimmicks created.
Commemorative coins of today have mintages even lower than most of their 1894 - 1952 counterparts, but of course, does anyone care?
Does this mean i have to follow another grading aspect class?
Guess I better get out my PMS Book. Wait ! Stop ! Hold The Fort, That means a
Pantone Matching System ...book.
NZ’s contribution to colour. I actually find it to be kind of cool.
Smitten with DBLCs.
Circulation version:
Smitten with DBLCs.
Technically, or rather, essentially, it was a 1907 issue.
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How 'bout they stick to making coins for commerce? If they (and our lawmakers) would focus on that instead of all this circus-tent stuff, they'd be a lot closer to accomplishing their intended purpose.
Really, our current coinage does more to hinder business than help. Cent, nickel, dime? Who needs those? Let get rid of currency below the $20 note and replace the rest with coins. Redesign the whole system and stop churning out sh...tuff that private mints can make just fine.
More junk!