Metallic transaction cards

A method of manufacturing one or more transaction cards, comprising:

• milling one or more metallic card bodies each having a front face, a rear face, a periphery extending there between, a front beveled peripheral surface along a front edge of the metallic card body between the front face and the periphery, and a rear beveled peripheral surface along a rear edge of the metallic card body between the front face and the periphery;
• anodizing the metallic card bodies wherein the peripheral surface and the front and rear beveled peripheral surfaces are anodized with the front face and the rear face to cover a metallic color of the card body;
• providing an overlay on the anodized rear face of the metallic card body, wherein the overlay includes a magnetic stripe integrally embedded within the overlay;
• and
• laser-etching indicia onto an exposed rear surface of the overlay.

A method of manufacturing one or more transaction cards, comprising:

• forming one or more metallic card bodies each having a front face, a rear face, and a periphery extending there between;
• milling one of the metallic card bodies to form both a front beveled peripheral surface along a front edge of the metallic card body between the front face and the periphery and a rear beveled peripheral surface along a rear edge of the metallic card body between the front face and the periphery;
• anodizing the metallic card bodies, wherein the front and rear beveled peripheral surfaces are colored during anodizing in the same dyestuff as the other areas of the card body though dye absorption to cover a metallic color of the card body;
• and
• providing an overlay on the anodized rear face of the metallic card body, wherein the overlay includes a magnetic stripe integrally embedded within the overlay.