Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Hope everybody is doing well. Red or brown that's my question? Unless they taught me wrong I did go to public school. Yellow and blue make brown. There's no two colors, that you can make red it's either red or brown. This looks to me to be Brown just looking for some opinions thank you
They both look red to me. The first one is just lightly toned on the edge, typical of what you see in OBW rolls. The second appears to have just not toned evenly, IMO it is on the verge of RB. Keep in mind if there is at least 95% red coloring, it gets the RD designation, even if part of it is toned a different color.
Thanks for your reply. Yes I watched the grading PCGS a million times on youtube. It was done 10 years ago but, it should be the same rules for everybody. I'm good with it it's okay with my coin. But the way they grade things is just I don't know I can't figure it out it's killing me.
I agree with Eli on this one. Some pennies can have rainbow toning and be graded as Red, mainly if the toning is not turning it brown. Red (RD) pennies have 95-100% red coloring, with red-brown (RB) cents having 5-95% red color and brown pennies having less than 5%. Here's a commonly used scale for reference:
Just got a lot from a auction. So many old foreign copper coins. Is it okay to post, foreign coins on this site
Way too confusing. Don't like that, red Brown It's either red or brown. There's no color on the color wheel, that designates red brown color. I never had a crayon from crayola, that was red, Brown
As long as you post them in the "World Coins" section. I'm interested in seeing them because I like old foreign coppers.
Yeah there is some german, japanese, british, and Italian. One that stood out to me, is a 1915 I think UK half penny in amazing condition.
Fortunately we’re talking about coins not crayons. The TPGs make millions of dollars and millions of slab labels using Red, Red Brown and Brown for a reason. BTW…as late as the mid-‘80s Crayola made 64 color and 128 color MegaPaks of crayons. In these big assortment boxes of crayons they had tons of shade colors. One of them was “Burnt Sienna”. It was a reddish brown…imo…Spark
So I'm learning. If I grade a coin ms65. I should always grade it one or 2 grades grade lower. Like an MS 64.63 So if I think it's a 65. It's probably a 6463 That's my new way of doing it thank you.
