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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1409274, member: 26030&quot;]Hey Lehigh, By the way i LOVE your 1941-D Jefferson.&nbsp; Wow</p><p><br /></p><p>Ok, you know I love a good challenge and you threw down the gauntlet!</p><p><br /></p><p>First off, just to be fair, you can&#039;t change my Flash Index system then say it doesn&#039;t work!</p><p><br /></p><p>If you take a look at this page that details the system:</p><p><a href="http://100greatestmirrorprooflincolns.com/flash.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://100greatestmirrorprooflincolns.com/flash.html" rel="nofollow">http://100greatestmirrorprooflincolns.com/flash.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You will see that No Color or Minor Color on a side scores 0 in all four color categories.&nbsp; Whether that is a good or fair system, I am starting to have doubts as your thoughts on some of the moster toned Morgans have color on only 1 side is a good one.&nbsp; For Lincoln cents, it&#039;s interesting but typically the toning is on both sides.&nbsp; In any case, I do wonder if a better system would be to ignore an untoned side completely ...&nbsp; still is THAT fair to coins that have both sides with monster toning?&nbsp; shouldn&#039;t that have a some sort of premium.&nbsp; These are all great questions and will have to give that more thought!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>So any way back to your Jeffersons.&nbsp; I did the tweak to Flash Index system for MS coins vs. Proofs ... where the Proof Categories &quot;Mirrors and Sparkle&quot; are replaced with MS Categories &quot;Brightness and Luster&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; (Brightness is basically a judgement of the brightness or shine off the high points of the design (a quality which adds to a toned coin&#039;s appeal (IMHO)).</p><p><br /></p><p>So I scored your two Jefferson is my Flash Index system below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since your 1950 shows &quot;minor color&quot; on the reverse, it scores 0 in four color categories.</p><p><br /></p><p>So using Flash, the 1941-D scores a &quot;Gold Level&quot; toning score with a&nbsp; near perfect 9.6 (out of 10) ... while the 1950 scored a medeocre 5.9, well below the lowest &quot;Bronze Level&quot; score (of 7.0).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even if I had given the reverse of your 1950&nbsp; low scores (2s or 3s) instead of 0 scores in the four color categories, it still would have only scored in the low 7&#039;s. So even in that case Flash would have worked fine. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, in my opinon, the Flash Index did &quot;work&quot; for your Jeffersons.&nbsp; Completely capturing the monster nature of your 1941-D and the ho-hum nature of your 1950.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I will definitely give some thought to the question of &quot;how should you handle a monster toned coin with one untoned side.&nbsp; Should that detract from a total score?&nbsp; Or should it simply be ignored and not allowed to hurt the score of the monster toned side?&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do actually agree with you that for most coins (especially) Morgans the market place is saying &quot;Do not penalize a monster toned coin if it has an untoned side&quot;.&nbsp; So I will definitely spend some time rethinking this.&nbsp; Fortunately, this appears to rarely be an issue for Monster Toned Lincoln cents -- which was the basis for my initial study.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are the kinds of questions I was hoping to get from other toned coin lovers with an interest in this system!&nbsp; So THANK YOU for providing this great food for thought.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]170472.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]170474.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]170473.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]170478.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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