44. Reviewing 1955 Armour Coin Colors

 

 



Several of you have requested I try to come up with a complete chart of 1955 colors as I did for 1959 colors in the last blog. While all of these colors have been discussed in previous blogs, I have now tried to get all the colors into one chart like my 1959 chart.

I won't go into a lot of discussion on this. By now you know that the common colors for 1955 are Red, orange, lemon yellow, pale green, navy blue and aqua.

 

Certainly the rarest colors include peach, gold, silver, yellow/green (also at times called olive green), tan, sky blue and Wisconsin blue. Hope this is some help to my interested readers

 



Some might catch that I have left out what I have called "dark red transparent"...that's because it is so hard to show this color as a picture that clearly identifies it. It looks just like dr red (especially in EBay pis) . Those that have one know it...when you hold it up to the light you clearly see the individual red pigment particles in the coin. I  currently have 11 different examples of this color so it is real. The only other color I have ever seen like this is one example of navy blue which is Antonelli N.Y....

 

If I have missed any colors let me know...

 

 

43 Reviewing 1959 Armour coin colors

It's been awhile since we looked at 59 colors so I though I'd look at those again. While the 59 set holds the lowest value ( no variations and no Mantle or Mays) of the 3 sets, it is the most colorfull (in my opinion) and has many colors that are very difficult to find. Pale blue and grey/green have always been rare, but recently they have become super rare. Pale oj, pale red, burnt orange, dk yellow, cream and brown  are certainly in the super rare category. There is a separate blog on dk red, dk grey/blue and dk green with the green being rare but the easiest of the 3 to find. The pale green opaques are hard to find and always come with a white swirl. We have confirmed 3 shades of pink as you can see in the chart below and 2...maybe 3 blue shades of confetti.


The color chart below is the best I have done for the 3 years since all the colors look true.

Is the burnt orange really a dark orange to make the full dark set of red, orange, yellow, green and blue ? Your thoughts..should that include dk pink maybe ?

Should another grouping be pale red, pale orange, pale yellow, pale green, pale blue and pale pink ? If so why is the pale yellow so much more common ??

Why are the confetti coins only in blue ??

If your a collector try getting one of each color or a set of all 20 coins each in a different color. In my opinion much "coole" than having a set all in navy or all in orange, but that's just my opinion.

...feel free to comment on which of the rare colors you might have. If anyone has a pale blue Malzone or Cerv...talk to me ...



42 1955 Rare Variations - Grades vs colors

Thought we would take a look at the 1955 non Mantle tough variations and what colors they have been graded in. This data was collected off the PSA sets and by contacting the set owners to input their colors and any other graded examples of these 7 coins that they are in possession of.

We got a pretty good response to this questionnaire so thanks for the input guys/gals...

By the way last check this web page has gotten 67,000+ views...WOW



Feb 22nd  2019 - data update from readers: The following PSA 7s have been reported : Antonelli - pale grn, Guilliam narrow- navy, Jackson - navy, Jensen - navy, Snider black, Trucks - navy

So there have been ~ 193 of these 7 coins graded and we know the whereabouts of slightly greater than half of them. RED appears to be the hardest color to find these 7 coins in.

Hope this data is of some interest to you all ...