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Doing an ebay search for uncirculated braided hair large cents in the $125-$300 range, these are some of the coins I'm attracted to. I like a few of them because of their odd colors. Especially like those in the first few pics. Looking at these, do you see any of them as "problematic"? Is any of that pretty coloring artificial or the result of cleaning? Should chocolate brown with no apparent toning (blue, pink, green, whatever) be the color to look for? I'm trying to build my first date set out of braided hair large cents of all different grades, and I'm thinking of buying a nice higher grade specimen soon. Thanks.        |
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I am by no means an expert but that first one looks very suspicious to me... It could very well be real, but it looks funny to me.
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Here are my opinions:
1. Original AU
2. Cleaned AU
3. Original AU/UNC
4. Cleaned EF
5. AU with porosity in the fields
6. Original AU
7 nice UNC
If you were considering them all equally, I would go for the last one.
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 Just some crazy toning going on on most, but TypeCoin pointed out the cleaned ones. |
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K. So that pink and green toning on 1 and 3 wouldn't be "quest color"? It's real toning?
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I like the 1856 best (#3) looks like lots of luster left!
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Number 3 is the one I like the best. I wouldn't buy any of the others personally. Number 7 looks ok except the discoloration/corrosion above Libertys head.
Edited by EFLargeCents
11/26/2014 12:38 pm
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I actually like #1 because of the smoothness of the surfaces, especially on the cheek.
I probably won't pick up a higher grade coin like any of these for another month or so.
Just trying to learn about the intricacies of this type of coin before making that plunge.
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One problem you face is the need - especially with copper - to also factor in the photography. Copper is extremely difficult to show as the color would look in-hand. It's almost always overlit (appearing lighter brown than it should) or underlit (the opposite). So one really can't trust the hue or saturation of most digital imagery because the photographer simply can't get it right.
Of these, I suspect only the second 1853 is really close on color.
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thanks meadowviewcollector for posting those sites. i am having an issue with my key board so please excuse proper punctuation.  great question scottk  |
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Thanks bpoc.
Now I'm wondering about Ssuperdave's post.
Maybe the reason that coin #1 looks so smooth surfaced is it could be a scan instead of a direct photograph?
I've noticed that scans sometimes hide hairlines, bagmarks, and so on....
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Scottk, I agree with you on scans and a direct photography. SsuperDdave knows, IMHO, the right technology to produce a properly colored coin. But.. There is no list from, "Him" on cleaned or not cleaned coins. Wait and lets see what VT has to say.  |
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They're all photographs, and the first is easily the best image. The color is too light, though. That one's darker in hand.
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Aha!  |
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