Bear Coin

[Bigjackfish]

I have a 1962 Bear Polar ,the coin is pewter and what looks like black paint on it.Most of the black is missing I have been kicking around the idea of refinishing the bow.I would like to refinish the coin to original ,would a refinish hurt the value of the bow if I wanted to sell some where down the road.

[damascusdave]

The Polar line has never been all that popular with collectors so a refinish will not likely hurt the value in the least...those pewter coins are a bit of a mystery to me...as you say it appears that all but the raised bear and the outside edge are painted black...interestingly enough the best one I have ever seen is on my late model 1961 Kodiak

DDave

[Bigjackfish]

Could you post a pic of your 61 Kodiak coin

[warpedarrow]

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=14;t=006831

There is a good picture of the painted coin in this thread