Where is the 'RB' on this coin? -pics-
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Firstly, sorry for the really poor flat looking cell phone pics, however this coin in hand is lusterous full flashy bright orange/gold on both sides without even a hint of brown. Perhaps the 'RB' refers to the rims?
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In the dark obverse fields? Need much sharper image too!
That sure looks red to me. At least by those photos. Mechanical error maybe?
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Looks nice and red based upon the pic.
Red, all day long.
Dave
In this case "RB" means the coin is currently red but will one day be brown....
Perhaps the color was netted down (to place a value) to RB due to some problem we cannot see in the fuzzy images.
The pictures are blurry... but the 'red' does look muted.. almost to a gold tone... Could be just the pictures, but if accurate, that is likely the justification for the RB....Cheers, RickO
If you didn’t pay red money, then spike the football
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I saw Indian Cents like this that were graded R&B when I was dealer. Usually they were better dates.
My perception is that the grader thought that the coin has been dipped to make it look red. In the cases that I have seen, the coin did indeed appear red, but if you compare it with the coins that are “original red” there is a difference. The difference might be the “orange” that you see on this piece. The color of original red copper has a subtly different hue to it.
Although it is from a different era, I believe that the red on this coin is original. The grade is PCGS MS-65, R&B CAC. Compare the color you see here with your coin.
The grader was leaving for the day, and u got RB.
I believe it is red but.... you paid the graders for there opinion not me lol
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the graders felt there was at least 5% that was dark, in fingerprints, high points and obverse field
The color looks slightly and rather evenly mellowed to me. A bronze coin can miss out
on a RD designation, based on such mellowing and need not display areas of more pronounced RB color.
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
Also, it may have crossed the grading room in a stack of other cents. It's easier to detect a difference against its peers than discern the color of a solitary outlier.
There are a lot of good answers here.
Agreed.
Likely, the coin was a "liner" and they didn't want to "give" the coin a 4 RD, so this was the compromise.
Give the grade or give the color but don’t give both...
I thought the same thing when I got this back, especially when compared to the other 1903 PR RD's as seen here.
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1903-1c-rd/images/2398
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