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Do you think it is easy to find Flowing Hair type with natural color ?

coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 14, 2021 9:03PM in U.S. Coin Forum

It's a lot harder than one would like to believe. ;)

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  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,096 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not easy at all.

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  • CryptoCrypto Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 15, 2021 7:00AM

    I am not sure we all can even agree what constitutes original color let alone find it. I rarely ever see flowing hair with multiple layers of age.

  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Crypto stated:

    I am not sure we all can even agree what constitutes original color let alone fine it.

    "Grey dirt" is used by capped bust half collectors and by dealer Sheridan Downey in his auctions to describe naturally toned silver coins - a medium grey crust of thick toning, not too light or too dark, and without the vivid colors from album or envelope toning:

    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,870 ✭✭✭✭✭

    (Deep) dove gray is my favorite look on these early silver coins. Hard surfaces with a ting of blueish gray when the coin is titled is the ultimate (for me).

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  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think I’ve seen a few, but most have been ‘played with’, shall we say.

    Dave

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  • OliverDePlaiseOliverDePlaise Posts: 102 ✭✭✭

    CAC determined this was natural color.

  • truebloodtrueblood Posts: 609 ✭✭✭✭

    @OliverDePlaise said:
    CAC determined this was natural color.

    I do not believe a cac sticker says that in particular for every coin it approves. That is not its purpose.

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