Comments on: Austrian Mint Launches Glow-In-The-Dark, Colourful Creatures €3 Coin Series

By: Seth Riesling

Seth Riesling — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:33:44 +0000

The problem is that I really like the design on both sides of this coin, just not the colorization. If the RCM & Perth & other world Mints would offer a version without color, I would buy many of the coins that have great designs but are colorized.
The Fledermaus (the German word for “bat” & the official language of Austria & my second language) is the only mammal capable of true flight. I live in Austin, Texas near the largest population of bats in the world & we even have a street named Bat Caves Road!

-NumisDudeTX

By: jim

jim — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:13:39 +0000

It’s a flop if they all just turn green but maybe not if they use different colors of phosphorus. This coin obviously fits in with all hallows eve and Die Fledermaus is a famous opera by Strauss so not a bad first step into commercialism – a bit late to compete with Perth and Ottawa though.
But I understand your dismay.

By: Seth Riesling

Seth Riesling — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:35:50 +0000

The venerable Austrian Mint, after more than 800 years of minting coins finally gave in to the colorized coin craze just earlier this year with their Vienna Opera Ball colorized coin & now these hideous glow-in-the-dark coins! I used to order coins from them by mail & at the local savings bank when I lived in Germany (1976-1979) & bought their nice silver commemorative coins. It is sad to see one of the oldest continuously operating world Mints giving in to the colorized kitsch coin movement. But, they have to keep up with the Jones’s I guess!

-NumisDudeTX