What Turner didn't realize was that he would infuriate so many lovers of the art of black and white movies. Each quarter has a unique color scheme to match the coin's design. The enameling is done one color at a time, with the enameling baked on in a kiln. While coin collectors would not want these enameled and painted coins for their coin collections, folk art collectors might like them. Continental has a history for the hand-enameled artworks.
People are nuts over coins with color.
They were the valuable coins. Now it's the color coins. Two of the new 50-State quarter collectors are John McGinley and David Leon, both 13 years old, of Valencia. John has been collecting coins from 1900, which is one way some collectors assemble their coins. Other collectors might put together their birth year with the types of coinage available.