1909 vdb-a

How do you tell of it is a red / red/brown / brown?

 

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Here is one of them . Sorry but are cell phone pictures zoomed in. Looks red compared to the rest of the book.

 

Here is book 2

 

Both are brown.

 

Brown. Red would look closer to this, I tried to get a close approximation to album. lighting , etc. With the rare coins, one should always look at the color carefully. Since all I can see are your photographs, I would be suspicious of the 09-svdb, so have it checked for recoloring.



another red:



As I would say was Red-Brown: Same coin, 2 different light sources.



Maybe others can post examples to help, but there has always been a lot of disagreement.

 

Look in your pocket at a 2014 cent.

That should be red.

look at an older coin, that is brown