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Message:: [QUOTE="iPen, post: 2616807, member: 69760"]It seems that NGC and other TPGs don't have a designation for copper alloy rounds for colors besides Red, RB, or Brown. The proof coin below was graded by NGC as a Red-Brown color... there's definitely a Red color, and the obverse is completely red. But the brown... is absent. The devices only appear brown. The fields around the devices are much lighter in color, and don't resemble anything that's brown, or even red for that matter (so, it couldn't have been interpreted as a brown coin with red spotting around the devices). So, then, is "Red-Brown" a catch-all color designation for everything that's not either completely Red or completely Brown? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the TPGs assign all toned copper alloy coins as "RB", even if it's a majority Red with, say, yellow toning, so it may make sense from a conventional perspective. But what if it's 90% Red with 10% bright red toning?? Overall, if "RB" is a catch-all color designation, it doesn't really say much about the coin's color. [ATTACH=full]573502[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]