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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Urban_Lawyer, post: 1393107, member: 36361&quot;]I&#039;ve researched copper coin grading in Cointalk&#039;s reference section, but this still boggles me... does the color of a cooper coin affect its grade?&nbsp; For example, you get a shiny new penny out of a roll and it still shows its mint luster and &quot;copper red&quot; color.&nbsp; Fast forward fifty years, and the coin has not changed at all save perhaps its color... its now a deep brown but with no other indices of non-MS state, such as scratches, chips, etc.&nbsp; Does that reduce the coin to something below MS?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m considering collecting cents, but it seems like everything in a roll that is more than 5 years old is brown, not original copper red.&nbsp; Does this warrant trying to get red copper cents from sources other than rolls, such as mint sets, dealers, etc.?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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