I bought my first colorized coin. Poll - Should the US Mint create a colorzied coin and would you bu

TopographicOceans

I bought a Rapa Nul / Easter Island colorized coin issued by the Cook Islands.

The US Mint was the first to introduce a curved coin with the Baseball Hall of Fame (really as a tribute to our technology as well) but have never issued a colorized coin like many other Mints around the world.

Sure there are aftermarket US coins that have been colorized and available from the talking heads on the TV, but should the US Mint issue one - and would you buy it?

OldIndianNutKase

I think that you would only buy colorized coins if your coin dreams are in technicolor........

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DIMEMAN

CRAP........PURE CRAP!!!!!!!

lasvegasteddy

voted...NO

but this example you have displayed here is neat...'cept the colorization and that fossil thing

those attributes kill what looks like a sweet coin there
full relief design...i love that

sweet toning colors coins fine enough for me

love your masterpiece of a fountain there too...that's class

LotsoLuck

Your backyard has a spring/pending sinkhole, don't park your Corvette there

NumisOxide

Nope.

richbeat

Whatever technique the Canadian Mint uses to colorize coins is tolerable, some are actually quite nice. As for aftermarket colorization, NO NO NO to all of them; they're all horrible. I don't care for the colorization process on this coin. It looks too much like aftermarket colorization. And I do not want the US Mint to start colorizing coins, although they probably will, eventually.

pcunix

If they made it to be a CIRCULATING coin, yes. Otherwise, no, and I don't care if the flippers make millions, I will not buy it!

Twobitcollector

no & no

Steve

The job of the US Mint is to produce coins for circulation. Higher costs to produce those coins because of color would increase the cost of government and therefore your taxes. It sounds like a great idea. Steve

ricko

No.... but my Mother would surely buy it for me thinking it would be worth thousands some day... Cheers, RickO

GRANDAM

"Should the US Mint create a colorzied coin"

Only if it is sold in "The Young Collectors Set" and they include the crayons so that you can "make your own" coin

GrandAm

IrishMikey

Some of the colorized pieces from Australia are pretty cool. It might take the U.S. Mint a few tries to get it right, but why not?

As for raising taxes, assuming that the colorized coins are sold for a premium, it should cover all the costs involved with making
them. Might actually save the taxpayers some money.

LindeDad

Sand painting is more interesting.
BTW I believe the mint should get out of supplying collectors and just make money.

nwcoast

No... For the most part I really think them tacky. Our friends to the North do some nice pieces featuring wildlife though!
I have not bought any and can't get over the tacky factor though..

Forgive my poor recall of the history here though.
I don'r remember much about Easter Island except for some of the various wild theories on how and why these monuments were constructed.

It looks like this is some sort of enormous communal urinal trough and bladder relief ceremony...
No offense here.... Just wondering.....

I'll leave it at that

johnny9434

the mint has better things to be doing then colorizing coins.

Sonorandesertrat

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You were much too polite.
An old adage, 'there's a sucker born every minute,' very much applies to the world of modern crap.