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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrjason71, post: 2907805, member: 90347&quot;]We may all see the same color differently (the age old philosophical debate) but we all agree when an object is red or pink or orange or gold (cant forget gold--lots of these &quot;red&quot; coppers are in fact gold <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) You see the fire engine; I see the fire engine; we both call it red so...Hopefully when we both look at the same red coin we can agree that &quot;red&quot; is the word we use to describe that visual characteristic...</p><p><br /></p><p>I love this image and thank you to whomever created it. I hope its ok I repost it here. I believe I first saw it here at CoinTalk.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701617[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d call these &quot;red&quot; cents actually gold through orange. I think there could be one more image to the left of these and it would be pink. Freshly minted pink. The color of copper totally without oxidation, etc. Like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701618[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>or like this (this is from an ebay seller who gets top dollar for an endless stream of coins this color--if it is even close to unc details, it will be this color):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701619[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>None of these in any of these pics is actually &quot;red&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will take a pic later of some I have that have actually toned red. Literally red. They are all from the 80s onward and I pulled them out of circulation early in their lifetimes when they were pink. I put them away and years later I dug them out and they are all a beautiful red. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for any faux pas I may have made in this post <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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