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I like to collect coins that tend to be a bit different than most. Like the Belarus Commemorative series with embedded crystals...

 

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Or Poland's Silver & Ceramic...

 

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Or Colorized issues...

 

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To the Netherlands imaged coins...

 

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What are your thoughts? Do you like things different? Or are they just too outrageous? Do you have anything that's different? If so, let's see 'em.

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There are several Aussie hologram coins that are selling like hot cakes - I can't really get hold of them unless I pay quite a fair bit more ;)

 

Example:

http://www.prospectstampsandcoins.com.au/w...mint/holograms/

 

I am actually much more interested in how long they will last - I mean, will it not affect the quality of the coins over long period of time? ;) Well I guess we don't get to live that long :ninja:

 

Oh well... I guess it's nice to have some :lol:

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i like to think that coins should circulate, so coins that have features that would inhibit their circulation don't seem to interest me ... so i don't love the crystals, ceramic, ..., and if an issue is colorized then it should be a colored metal and not something painted in ...

 

otoh, holograms seem like they could be sturdy enough to circulate ...

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I like to collect coins that tend to be a bit different than most.  Like the Belarus Commemorative series with embedded crystals...

 

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These I love! And also some of the similar ones you entered in the PCIs. I am not much for the colorized ones but I have seen some old enameled ones that were cool.

 

The rest I am not all that keen on but you should take that for what it is worth. I am the guy who buys irradiated dimes and other such weird stuff. :ninja:

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Speaking of such crystal jewellery related coins,

 

Have you seen Cook Island's examples by any chances? :ninja:

 

http://www.pandaamerica.com/subcategory.as...ateg=45&grp=1#a

 

I can drool on these two...

 

http://www.pandaamerica.com/details.asp?it...&grp=1&categ=45

http://www.pandaamerica.com/details.asp?it...&grp=1&categ=45

 

*drool...*

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Now those are 'way out there'. But, if you put some gold dust or meteorite pieces or something even odder in there, I might want one too! A lot of possibilities for something like that, actually.

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Speaking of such crystal jewellery related coins,

 

Have you seen Cook Island's examples by any chances? :ninja:

 

http://www.pandaamerica.com/subcategory.as...ateg=45&grp=1#a

 

I can drool on these two...

 

http://www.pandaamerica.com/details.asp?it...&grp=1&categ=45

http://www.pandaamerica.com/details.asp?it...&grp=1&categ=45

 

*drool...*

 

 

I have seen those before. I don't quite know how I feel about them. They certainly qualify as strange.

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Now those are 'way out there'. But, if you put some gold dust or meteorite pieces or something even odder in there, I might want one too! A lot of possibilities for something like that, actually.

 

 

I believe there is one with meteorite or some space stuff in it. I saw it in a Littleton catalog I believe. I'll see if I can find it.

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Now those are 'way out there'. But, if you put some gold dust or meteorite pieces or something even odder in there, I might want one too! A lot of possibilities for something like that, actually.

Maybe some Swiss gold coins with Jew teeths...

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The Dutch one I like. Well, I hope the mint does not make excessive use of this MPI technology, because then it would get boring ;-) Other than that, it's cool. The one from Poland ... I remember a similar coin, commemorating the Amber Trail, which had a little piece of amber in it. Odd but nice. The Malbork coin is already over the top IMO - interesting but I would not buy it.

 

I am not a big fan of colorized coins (with a few exceptions though). As for all those collector coins from Belarus, Cook Islands, etc., if I have the impression that the locals will hardly ever get to see one of those pieces, I tend to avoid them. Hope that was vague enough ... :ninja:

 

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I think they're wacky. I enjoy them because of that. If I were to be looking for a new typeset, it would probably coins with unusual shapes, materials, add-ons. I think it would make an outstanding exhibit.

 

Anyone know what the earliest coins to contain such things may be? I've heard that there are ancients that were actually bimetal.

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