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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1285294, member: 112&quot;]Well what that particular color is is also a clue. On older copper the color will usually be a uniform brown that can vary from light colored milk chocolate to dark chocolate in shade. Even that bust half, if it were a uniform dark or semi-dark gun metal grey instead of that whitish, light colored grey - it would be an entirely different story.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have to know your coins. You have to know what a certain coin in a certain condition is going to look like when it is problem free. And if it looks like something else, then you have to start trying figure out why it looks that way. This is where knowledge and experience comes in. And you can only get it by having looked at thousands and thousands and thousands of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So there is no single distinguishing feature or trait that I can tell you to look for. There are a thousand different distinguishing features and traits, depending on the particular coin in question. With every date, every mint, every grade, with every denomination,&nbsp; and all of those various combinations, it will be something different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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