Adding some color to U.S. commemoratives is under consideration, the United States Mint revealed during a Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee meetingWednesday to review candidate designs for the 2020 Basketball HOF Coins.

The U.S. Mint has never added color to coins.

The final Basketball coin designs would play a large part in driving an eventual decision, the use of color would be subtle and limited to silver and cladcoins, and any colorization would happen only after intense research and development to ensure the quality of the coins would be of the highest regard.

To read the complete article, see:
U.S. Mint Considering Colorized Coins(http://www.coinnews.net/2019/07/17/u-s-mint-considering-colorized-coins/)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
CANADIAN MINT'S LASER COLORING TECHNOLOGY(https://www.coinbooks.org/v22/esylum_v22n26a25.html)