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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Red !!! :)

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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Glossy brown is my favorite.

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

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  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,648 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With bourbon, thank you.

    RB presents best eye appeal usually.

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Red Brown at Brown price is my favorite :)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Red for modern, but definitely brown for the older coins (i.e. large cents, two cents). Old copper just looks more natural when brown. Cheers, RickO

  • Mdcoincollector2003Mdcoincollector2003 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love red brown Indians I bought a 1902 at a coin show from the half priced bin for two dollars and fell in love with red brown Indians ever since

  • mt_mslamt_msla Posts: 815 ✭✭✭✭

    I like mine silver and gold.

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  • ColonialcoinColonialcoin Posts: 746 ✭✭✭✭

    I prefer brown colonials. The only red colonials that I can afford have been harshly cleaned! ;)

  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1Mike1 said:
    Glossy brown is my favorite.

    +1, My favorite also

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  • IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭

    Since I am not currently buying any copper that is "younger" than 150 years, I voted for RB. Some of those "Brown with color" cents posted earlier are also OK. While I may not live long enough to see any full Red large cents begin to change color, I know that they will, eventually. Many of the original Red & Brown pieces available are pretty much set, unless they are stored improperly.

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 1, 2018 8:49AM

    @BillJones said:
    It all depends upon the age of the copper. For very modern material, and I only collect Proofs, it’s red. For Proof coins from 1936 to 1942, red or R&B is okay. For 18th and 19th century copper, I like brown. I got burned years ago on some very old red copper that had been “enhanced.” It turned brown very quickly.

    Agree with Bill. I prefer red for more modern copper, going to RB and BN for older copper.

    I like the idea of red large cents, but stay away due doctoring horror stories from Bill and others.

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  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,652 ✭✭✭✭✭

    All of the above. Depends on date, condition, etc.

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't have one yet but I like Red > RB spectrum :)

  • jedmjedm Posts: 3,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With Lime, Vodka and Ginger please!

    Squeeze lime juice into a COPPER mug and drop in the spent shell.
    Add 2 or 3 ice cubes, then pour in the vodka and fill with cold ginger beer.
    Serve with a stirring rod.

  • AotearoaAotearoa Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Definitely brown for my DBLCs. Coins that old don't look right in any other colour. And please leave out the green speckles...

    Smitten with DBLCs.

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,385 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Red - and cameo is preferred, but I also like toners.

    “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

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  • RWMRWM Posts: 207 ✭✭✭

    Chocolate not an option?

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,809 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Shaken, not stirred.

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  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Brown or red-brown with lotsa color.

  • KccoinKccoin Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    large copper looks good brown

  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,162 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With everything else being equal, how do you prefer your copper?

    Raw to medium rare.

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  • PurfrockPurfrock Posts: 545 ✭✭✭

    I like them all, but for early copper, a nice glossy brown is hard to beat.

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Should blue be a choice?

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭✭✭

    R & B is for me! Peace Roy

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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1Mike1 was the first member that had my attention and than WingedLiberty1957 threw his hat into the ring, all of this is because I'm a big fan of brown copper.
    OldIndianNutKase's 1905 IHC just might of changed my mind, what a beautiful coin!

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Brown, I guess.
    Can't change much [except for environmental damage] :smile:

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  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 6,028 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I voted Red, but a nice RB with luster and color would have my vote

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  • COINS MAKE CENTSCOINS MAKE CENTS Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Deep chocolate brown for me

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like rainbow, red brown eye candy!!

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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Raybo said:
    1Mike1 was the first member that had my attention and than WingedLiberty1957 threw his hat into the ring, all of this is because I'm a big fan of brown copper.
    OldIndianNutKase's 1905 IHC just might of changed my mind, what a beautiful coin!

    If I remember correctly, I think its @robec that owns a 1920 D that is outstanding in glossy brown. Perhaps he will show it off once more. :)

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • SamByrdSamByrd Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭

    mellow red-brown or glossy brown.


  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Red please.

    Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.
  • TomthemailcarrierTomthemailcarrier Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭✭



    Red Brown is for me.

  • SiriusBlackSiriusBlack Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lots of pretty coins here! I’m in the toned BN or occasionally RB group!

    Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I expect red for modern, R/B for middle age stuff, and I love nice glossy chocolate on historic stuff.

  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RB or BN.. depends on the coin's characteristics.
    I have seen Lincoln's in "RD" that had quite nice IMO RB color.

    There's something charming too about an older piece of copper that is well-worn glossy chocolatey brown...smoothed by the work it did in commerce.

  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,257 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • BackroadJunkieBackroadJunkie Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would have appreciated "Free" or "Cheap Inexpensive" as a fourth option in the survey... ;)

  • alefzeroalefzero Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like old copper. Anything RB or RD has been messed with after that much time. It should be handsome shades of brown.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Red, but they all have a place.

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Red.

  • RoscoRosco Posts: 253 ✭✭✭✭

    @1Mike1 said:

    @Raybo said:
    1Mike1 was the first member that had my attention and than WingedLiberty1957 threw his hat into the ring, all of this is because I'm a big fan of brown copper.
    OldIndianNutKase's 1905 IHC just might of changed my mind, what a beautiful coin!

    If I remember correctly, I think its @robec that owns a 1920 D that is outstanding in glossy brown. Perhaps he will show it off once more. :)

    Towards the bottom of page 1....a beautiful cent...

    Enter with caution....Beauty abounds here :

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/997910/post-your-pcgs-toned-lincolns/p1

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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like them all as long as they are nice.



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