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*Khaki Gold*

SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Just came across this phrase in an auction catolog and it accurately describes the toning on a coin I own.
I'm wondering what other drescriptive adjectives for gold coin toning I've yet to come across?
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editing for my own edification:
"Boldly defined with yellow-gold surface that are further enhanced by a canary-yellow patina that sits atop much of the surfaces"
yellow-gold
canary-yellow
orange gold
pumkin gold

Edited:Monday September 03, 2012 at 4:42 PM by Swampboy

peach
amber
peach-amber
"golden-orange in hue, with traces of lilac mixed in"

Edited: Saturday September 08, 2012 at 2:12 PM by Swampboy


"natural green-gold color"

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I see the adjective in a coin description, I generally do not like the coin (FWIW).
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  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RYK: What other adjectives strike you as odd in describing gold coins?
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  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,090 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was it a matte proof? If so, it might be quite attractive.
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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was a $1 Type 3 gold coin Tom with no image.

    "At indirect light angles, one can also discern faint suggestions
    of khaki-gold."

    This accurately describes the peripheral toning on my 97-S $5.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I rather liked the uniforms of that color haven't found any coins like that yet.image
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  • rawmorganrawmorgan Posts: 618 ✭✭✭
    Khaki to me sounds dull (no luster) and muddy. I wouldn't want that on a gold coin I own.

    Maybe they wanted to say "matte like" but didn't.

    But without a picture all I have is the image in my mind.

  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Is that green-gold?
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,859 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never heard this term before and I'm not sure what this khaki gold looks like. Can someone post a pic?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This one? image
    imageimage
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,859 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice looking gold dollar but I sure wouldn't use the term khaki to describe its color.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No SS.
    That one has toning I can't describe.
    Yet.image

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

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