Who colorizes coins for the US Mint?

Here is a link to LulaRose, the branch of the Clancy Group Corp that colorizes coins. As you'll see, it is operating from a "secret location in New England!"
https://theclancygroup.com/companies/american-portraiture-9f7ec

At least the job was kept state side

good find. we just need to convince the powers of the travesty of paint on coins.

@logger7 said:
I thought the Secret Service was involved in fighting the defacement of US coins: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3056

"defacing coins" isn't necessarily a crime.

@Zoins said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@MWallace said:
Colorized outside the mint. Hmmm. Does that change things for collectors?

Why would it?

Should I care when they outsource the planchets? When they outsource the artwork? What if the plaster cast is made outside the Mint? All of their packaging is outsourced.

I'm sure it matters for some people. For example, some people collect coins of foreign countries that are made by the US Mint. Here, it's the minting vendor that matters more than the issuer.

I suppose. But it seems like a pretty artificial line.

Then you definitely don't want a brasher doubloon. And anything counterstamped is out. Forget hobo nickels or potty dollars.

@MWallace said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@MWallace said:
Colorized outside the mint. Hmmm. Does that change things for collectors?

Why would it?

Should I care when they outsource the planchets? When they outsource the artwork? What if the plaster cast is made outside the Mint? All of their packaging is outsourced.

The point I was trying to make is that a huge majority of the collecting community has not accepted colorized coins. Silver Eagles and State Quarters for example. These could be looked at in the same way. The only difference is that the Basketball coins are mint authorized and that may make it OK to some collectors, maybe even most collectors.

Oh, I agree with your basic premise. But people who eschew colorized coins probably don't care if the color was added inside the Mint or outside.

@Zoins said:
Colorized coins is big enough business that Canada sued Australia for patent infringement and Australia ended up licensing Canadian technology!

I wonder if LulaRose is licensing any foreign tech!

Canadian and Australian mints resolve legal battle over 'Possum Magic,' Remembrance Day coins

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadian-and-australian-mints-resolve-legal-battle-over-possum-magic-remembrance-day-coins

Trouble had been brewing since almost three years ago, when the Canadian mint, a Crown corporation, first accused its Australian counterpart of using a special, patent-protected method to print red poppies onto $2 million worth of commemorative Remembrance Day coins. Last December, after about two years of talks did not result in any agreement, the Royal Canadian Mint filed a lawsuit.

The Canadians upped the ante this spring by adding five more runs of coins to the lawsuit, including one that featured designs from an Australian children’s book series called “Possum Magic.”

Among other things, the Canadian Mint was asking that the Australian Mint destroy or hand over any of the coloured dollar and two-dollar coins in its possession that had not been put out for circulation.

An April counter-claim from the Australian Mint defended the process it used to create the coins, some of which featured possums performing witchcraft, saying that the 2006 patent Canada claimed was being violated wasn’t “novelty” enough to have been granted in the first place, and should be struck altogether.

Ultimately a judge did not have to decide which mint was in the right. With the permission of both parties the court dismissed their respective claims on Monday after they agreed to a “collaborative” cross-licensing agreement.

A joint communiqué provided to the National Post on Monday afternoon said the agreement “provides for an exchange of licenses, and allows both mints to pursue their respective activities and business interests in a mutually-beneficial manner.”

Alex Reeves, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mint, did not offer further detail on what that exchange would entail, or whether Canada would now be receiving any royalties for the Australians’ use of the specific colour printing method. “The terms of the agreement are confidential,” he said in response to questions.

Well, it goes beyond coins. There's also challenge coins and other medals that get colorized.

@WAYNEAS said:
since they are just down the street from me
I think that I will do some dumpster diving next time I drive by

Wow.............I'm in Belmont, Woburn, Burlington all of the time.................right next to Winchester.

@1630Boston said:

@WAYNEAS said:
since they are just down the street from me
I think that I will do some dumpster diving next time I drive by

Wow.............I'm in Belmont, Woburn, Burlington all of the time.................right next to Winchester.

Medford

I vote AT

@Zoins
Nice informational find.