Expert: PAPAJACK - 12/30/2008

Question
I also have a golden colored dime dated 2000.  Have you heard of any other gold colored dimes minted in the past?


Answer
Hello Richard,                           

There were no reports of any gold tone dimes made at the USA Mint.

This was not made this way at the USA Mint, it was colored after it laws issued for circulation. These colored coins have no added value.

Since this is a modified coin, the value is questionable. It will still be worth a dime of course. It may have been a chemical reaction, an accident or it may have been plated with another metal.

The amount of collect-ability for any altered or plated coin is negotiable only to a buy looking for it. Most coin collectors are purists and will pay more than face value for the common copper-nickel version with no wear or scratches. I have seen non-numismatists buy them and other people pick them up for the novelty of them.  

Recently I have seen Gold Plated 1999 Susan B. Anthony’s at a coin show packaged with a Sacagawea and the Presidential Gold Colored Dollar coins. No true Coin collectors were buying them though.

These altered coins whether colored, Hallmarked, re-stamped or plated coins are an alteration, and therefore have no added value.

For COINS IN GENERAL: As long as it was treated after it left the minting process, even if it is gold plated, enameled, painted or two-tone the value is very limited. A true collector of numismatic material wants the coins EXACTLY as issued by the mint.

Good Luck

PapaJack