Bi-metallic coins-can't get interested

laurentyvan · August 30, 2004 2:19AM

I'm wondering if I'm a minority of one... I can't seem to get into bi-metallic coins of any kind. I can't figure a reason other than a gut reaction to their look which I just don't like.

I see other forum members enjoying this type of coin and I'm jealous!

Does anyone else have a similar problem?

theboz11 · August 30, 2004 2:22AM

No, your not alone. They look beat up and bad from the time they are issued,, I won't be collecting anymore of them

ajaan · August 30, 2004 2:32AM

I like them. But I usually only collect the one's from circulation.

Steve27 · August 30, 2004 2:35AM

Please send them to me if you don't like them.

coinrookie · August 30, 2004 2:37AM

On some coins I agree. But there are a few Russian wildlife coins that look nice. I also have a Argentina 1 peso error coin(K112.3) , that is a very attractive little coin. I will not be collecting them on a large scale, but will pickup a few interesting examples.

Steve

drjules · August 30, 2004 2:44AM

I have to disagree. I have worked my way through the 2 pound silver proof series from the UK and I think they improve significantly with the bi-metallic issues.

Dr J

Steve27 · August 30, 2004 2:56AM

Not the best pics, but here's my latest addtion:

AuldFartte · August 30, 2004 3:36AM

I have the same reaction to 'em, Laurent.

They just aren't that interesting to me.

sumnom · August 30, 2004 4:28AM

I like 'em. The Canadian 2$ coin is fantastic.

1jester · August 30, 2004 4:41AM

Some can be quite interesting, I suppose (but those might be even more interesting as normal single-metal coins). But I can't get excited about them at all either.

oldshep · August 30, 2004 8:48AM

Sorry Laurent but I like some --- like these:

Shep

izzy452 · August 30, 2004 9:13AM

I collect them also, so far I have about 60 to 70 .I have some doubles if anyone wants to trade .

Walt

Sylvestius · August 30, 2004 9:31AM

I like bi-mets as long as the golden alloy is on the outside.

The ones with the golden in the middle and the silver round the outside look far too much like a metallic egg.

ClausUrch · August 30, 2004 9:44AM

If you had one of these, I bet you would like it!

MSD61 · August 30, 2004 11:11AM

So far I all I have really collected of these are from Canada

Askari · August 30, 2004 12:14PM

I find I don't much like the ones where the main design element crosses over from one metal to the next. The ones where the colors of the different metals are used as a design element in their own right I like.

boz · August 30, 2004 1:04PM

Don't care much for them myself. Just don't like the look

ColinCMR · August 30, 2004 3:02PM

I like some of them. When I come across them they seem so modern, I do prefer coins with more history. The only ones I actively collect are Canadian $2 in proof-like.

USAROK · August 30, 2004 4:29PM

I have one of the Austrian Mint's 100 Shilling "Millennium 2000" bi-metal coins. I bought it from a coin shop in Salzburg, Austria in May of 2000, a souvenir of our visit. It's bi-metal combining a silver outer ring with a center made of titanium, and it's the first legal tender coin issued by a major national mint to use titanium.

The Obverse shows a computer chip, which is at the heart of the communications revolution. The silver ring is inscribed "Republik Österreich - 100 Schilling." The titanium center on reverse has a view of the world struck into it with the legend "Millennium 2000" in digital script while various means of communications are depicted in the silver ring.

cosmicdebris · August 30, 2004 7:12PM

I like some of them.

ClausUrch I see you got the MS version I got the proof instead. I knew I should have bought an MS.

cladking · September 1, 2004 2:09AM

I like just about all coins and the bimetallic issues are no exception. The circulating issues
should become even more fascinating as they wear and age and the differences in how the
different metals react to insults begin to show. The separate parts of these coins also make
for the possibility of new and unprecedented errors such as the US coin struck on the outer
rim of a Canadian twoonie.

Some of these have been extremely well executed.

laurentyvan · September 1, 2004 2:23AM

Cladking, maybe I'm just a traditionalist...

The new designs upset my sense of aesthetics then; what used to be a cohesive, artistic whole is now a small coin with a large border wrapped around it. The different designs on the outside rim usually don't conform well with the inner ring design. So, I have a visual problem with these coins. And most of the strikes I see are very flat-not attractive at all.

I won't deny there are some attractive pieces being minted but as a whole, I'll leave 'em alone.

Edited to add: Oldshep, yours are some of the nicest I've seen.

MacCrimmon · September 1, 2004 3:10AM

<< <i>And most of the strikes I see are very flat-not attractive at all. >>

BINGO!!

My distaste for most European coinage of the last 50 years is the trend for the flat design elements.....they look like 3rd grade art executed with a 3-axis end mill........

Give us depth (6-axis) or give me death........

Personally, I'll take the great engravers of the 19th century.

laurentyvan · September 1, 2004 3:33AM

Look how worn this almost 200 hundred year old Sub alpine 5 franc is, yet how much rich detail is still left. Some of the new phlatstruk (sic-my euphemism) coins of today will be ugly, unidentifiable slugs of metal after mere years of circulation.

Look at todays Lincoln pennies-dead ugly and slimy within several years-I almost don't like to handle them.

Edited for spelling

Luvdawgs · September 1, 2004 6:34AM

Very pretty franc, lauren.

I have a lot of bi-metallic twonies, and a bi-metallic Canadiian token. Also, some from the Caribbean. I like bi-metallics.

MacCrimmon · September 1, 2004 7:16AM

<< <i>. . . yet how much rich detail is still left . . . >>

C'est une beauté classique!!

How's my French?

lordmarcovan · September 1, 2004 7:27AM

Betcha could get into bimetallics like this...

lordmarcovan · September 1, 2004 7:39AM

Sylvestius · September 1, 2004 7:39AM

Same as several people have stated, i just don't like modern coins...

Sylvestius · September 1, 2004 7:42AM

Arrrghhhhhhhhhhh! Errors noooooooooooooooo.

They are worse than Clip Art State Quarters and spaghetti haired presidents put together... did i mention i hate errors? Well i do... sorry.

It seems everyone likes them but me, if error collecting was the only way i'd quit coins and move into books.

trozau · September 1, 2004 7:50AM

<< <i>If you had one of these, I bet you would like it!

>>

I like the gold and platinum bi-metallic kind! I do not have the US Library of Congress but I do have the Isle of Man Angel and Noble bi-metallic issues.

Bi-metallic coins-can't get interested

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