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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 548772, member: 4920&quot;]Doug, I didn&#039;t say anything about &quot;blast white,&quot; here, in the reply you just quoted and replied to. I rather said that in the former reply. And I think you know what I meant, there. I think you know I meant coins as they looked the minute after they were minted. Even if they were copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, let me add some exceptions for &quot;gunmetal grey&quot; or otherwise <i>even </i>or <i>uniform </i>&quot;shading.&quot; Those aren&#039;t as distracting as a spot of red, for example. Those, I consider, not as distracting from the engraver&#039;s intent. That engraver, again, is an artist, for the most part, using well-established&nbsp; techniques of art...those available to him...to convey a particular expression. When you see a B&amp;W sketch by a master, for example, are you able to appreciate that a colorized version is an adulteration and hardly the same expression? I&#039;m not asking whether you believe there&#039;s a market for the latter. In fact, I conceded, there&#039;s a market for colorized B&amp;W movies, just as there&#039;s a market for toned coins. But color is one of the most powerful artistic techniques there is, if not the most powerful. The other, or second most powerful, is detail. In the case of a coin, the latter is brought out by a strong strike. But that&#039;s how that engraver, whether one is consciously aware of it or not, is controlling your eye-focus and eye-movement throughout that coin. Maybe you just think you like it, it&#039;s &quot;eye appealing.&quot; I&#039;m trying to tell you why, and that that&#039;s deliberative on the part of the engraver, if he&#039;s worth anything. That&#039;s what I want to see, what that engraver wanted me to see; that&#039;s my MS70, as I said. And all I&#039;m saying about colored coins is that they change the artistic pattern or dynamic by introducing a technique foreign to that engraver at the time he engraved the coin. And, I do think a colored coin loses something for that. That&#039;s just a reflection of what I, personally, happen to appreciate in a coin. You have yours. The TPGs, obviously, have theirs. The next guy, who knows, may get off on that pedigree coin...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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