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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 2395266, member: 24314"]With experience: Just by looking at the COLOR of hundreds of graded coins; anyone who is not color blind can learn what is "market acceptable color."  If you cannot get to a show or dealer, ask your friends to sell you there jars of cents and look at the colors of pre-1982 coins.  For example, there is noting "original" about the color of the two Large cents in this post; however, they can be stripped back to "pink" and restored/made collectable in a short period of time.  It is taking every ounce of strength to keep me from sending a PM to their owner with some "tips" but not yet.  While I like to be "spoon-fed" as it same lots of time; he is against it for good reason.  As I have written before, the answer is in a book and one poster on CT has revealed one "old-timey" method that is similar.That's enough clues... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]