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    Need Color help on 65 Penny

    I picked up a nice 1965 Special Mint Set at our local monthly coin club meeting last night--I'm sending the coins out for slabbing, as they are in superb shape--my question is what color would the TPG's call this penny--BR, RB, or R? I know not brown, but red-brown or red?----makes a ton of diff. on the numismedia price, my goodness--it's luster is mellowed orange-copper red, and glows like heck--a real stunning finish with no hits or issues. I suppose the mint did a business strike 1965 as well, and very few SMS pennies got into circulation? Heck, for 11 dollars, I got the whole set, how can you beat that for stunning coins! The other coins all have a superb medium-champagne-gold toned finish from the plastic wrap over the years.
    Calvin
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    It is very hard to judge color from a photo for one camera is different than another when dealing with the actually pigments. Plus, some subjectivity is involved with the graders when figuring out what color is what. One may call it "red", while another "red/brown".

    Looking at your picture, I can see what looks like some toning to it which may complicate the grade, as far as color, also. Now you have the grader looking whether it is NT (natural toning) or AT (artificial toning).

    However, putting that all aside, it is a very nice looking coin.

    BJ Neff
    Member of: ANA, CCC, CONECA, Fly-in-club, FUN, NLG & T.E.V.E.C.

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