Victorian Coloured Sixpence?

[big_malky 0]

Has anyone ever seen something like this. Its an 1881 Victoria sixpence which seems to have been painted

[Chris Perkins 228]

Or, more accurately, enamelled. The Victorians did that a lot to their own coinage and to those of previous reigns. They are not really of interest to most numismatists but very pretty ones or completely intact ones are saleable.

[Chris Perkins 228]

Looking again, that's 1887. That was the jubilee year and a lot of 1887 coins were enamelled and sold as souvenirs. I've even seen 1889 coins enamelled to look like 1887.