Lincoln RB, RD, BN Etc.

The color also helps a lot with price and grade as well. You do NOT want a current Lincoln that is brown, but a Wheat is just fine. The Wheat's are more difficult to find (in circulation) and their value will go up accordingly. When it comes to the key and semi-key dates, most people are happy to have them no matter the color, but the newer the coin, the more red is desired. If you look around at the board you will notice that most people here try to have from about 1930 to current as bright reds and slowly working backwards on the others. Being red does make it more desirable to most but there are some that do like the well used look as well, either way, we like them all.

Exactly how I did it! Some will go with 1909 to 1934 all brown then 1935 to current all red.

In my Dansco 8100 I went with Wheats all brown and Memorials all red so there's uniformity among coin types. It came with it's own challenges, though. Like finding high grade 50's cents that are all brown.