I love to paint and want to start painting silver coins as a hobby

I want to get into painting my silver stash. I'd start with ASE's , maples, and britannia coins.

What type of paint do you recommend for painting on silver? Oil? Acrylic? What final coating should I put over the painted silver.

Anyone know of a guide out there for painting?

I'll be more than happy to show you guys the finished products for review
Cheers

 

I doubt you can just paint a coin like you would a canvas.
Enamel is probably the best and most durable.
Here they use a syringe to apply the paint:
http://www.silvertowne.com/p-19825-enameled-coins-the-most-beautiful-bullion-in-the-industry.aspx

 

Darn! A lot more complicated than I thought.
Thanks for the link

 

Well, they are selling those coins, so they want it to look professionally done and not too easy ?
For example, they specifically mention that they avoid scratching the coin.

Here is a hobbyist how to:
https://www.ehow.com/how_7723364_paint-coins.html

It says to use hard enamel paint, and that arts and supply craft stores sell bags of coins

 

Thats the kind of guide I was looking for . Ok I will pick up some supplies this week paint up a maple leaf and post the results

 

Please post! I like some painted coins.

Some inspiration (or not, a turtle is very different from a maple leaf)
[imgz=http://forums.silverstackers.com/uploads/7652_turtles.jpg][/imgz]

I think it will certainly look better than the fucked up pad-printed coin below.

 

Individual hand-painting of silver coins could be interesting. I'd guess you'd want to start with an ultra-clean coin surface and maybe (?) use those Testors brand enamel paints with ultra-small, professional
quality artists brushes. Painted renditions of the different designs of the Britannia would be interesting to see, but I'd be particularly interested in seeing your painted rendition of Lizzie on the obverse...

 

With age my eyesight is so bad, I only paint my 10kg Lunars.

 

With my painting skills, I'd get a result something like this:

 

Maybe that could be the next release from PM .. a paint by numbers set of coins.

 

Mine would look like a 5 year old's painting.

 

Oh I've always wanted to try this too! Do keep us posted

 

One of my mates tweaks MTG cards.. no reason why you cant paint up a coin.. just start with some junk and progress to coins with premiums later on..

great idea.. but id say to do this for fun rather than revenue generation.. the time taken to paint makes it a passion rather than a business.

 

Yeah probably try to buy some low premium 1oz coins/rounds from some dealers or even put a wtb for handled coins from here

 

...if that's the case, you should buy this one:

Paint Your Coin - First Love

 

If you hadn't shown those pics I would have been damn sure it was a joke.
I assume that's not a silver coin?
Anyway, it's a very funny/friendly/giftalike design. I like it. It looks abit like the "The Road to Roota" coin from Bix Weir.
If it's a silver one, I'm interested to buy some, whenever I have again some spare fiat.

 

.925 silver 20g

Easily to get it from feebay, you shouldn't have any problems

 

Ebay I skip, found a dealer in Spain offering them (some others too in various countries but alot more expensive) total price (tax+ship included) is 57.34 each, ordered 3.
They had better digged the paint part and made it 1 troy ounce 0.999 instead of 20 gram 0.925. It may have been the same production cost. But I had to have a few. I especially like coins that have many positivity elements / forget the crap in the world.

Despite I already was too short on euro's to be good. Unexpected bill = eek and sale of other silver or whatever required. I have a bag with 2 euro coins here as reserve. Started it not that long ago as safety backup. Can't use them to order online and showing up at the bank with it is too ridiculous to even try haha. Good way to force financial discipline if needed.

 

I saw the coin for sale at Downies in MELBOURNE $120

 

I immediately ordered them due to that 1500 mintage. Let's see over some month if my hurry was needed or not heh.
I also wonder if anyone will really paint it. I have doubts. I certainly won't, or it would be in my ol' days, when anything else became too hard, physically or mentally