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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2500575, member: 71723&quot;]Exactly where I stand. I expect a modern coin to be blast white, or whatever it started as, and I find deep toning obscene. Similarly, a truly old coin should be expected to have aged in color, maybe even blackish. Nothing looks dumber than a significantly worn large cent showing red. Knowing where the in between material falls requires research into how the best examples were typically stored or handled versus the circulated ones. Some series were true workhorses of commerce, such as Barbers generally. Bust halves, on the other hand, were used in large number for interbank&nbsp; transactions and survive in high grade in astonishing numbers. Not so the dimes and quarters. High grade Morgans are around because nobody other than in the west wanted the stupid things. So they sat in bags until Nixon sold them. The seated coinage saw peace, war, hoarding, hiding and reconstruction, and so are around in a wide range of conditions and colors. A coin has to fit its history to be &quot;real&quot; and God forbid we fail to &quot;keep it real&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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