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A Compendium of Our Advertising Through the Years

November 1, 2021:

"1937 Roanoke 50¢"

Author:
J. Agre

Concept:
Through the years, we’ve used this “Got Milk?”-ad inspired “Got Color?” line many, many times as part of wildly toned coin descriptions.

But we ourselves were surprised to realize that this line had never been used in one of our ads. So of course we decided we would, and just needed the right toned coin to write it under.

Which I am delighted to say we have found so with this superb, all original, emerald green, ruby red and golden orange tab-toned über-gem example housed in an NGC ★ holder (as an aside, we were also pleased to figure out how to insert that star symbol here, since the previous use of an asterisk had people hunting around the bottom of the page looking for the corresponding footnote which was of course not there).

Captions that didn’t make the cut:
There were none.

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