A few years ago, a store clerk handed me some pennies that were 
obviously fresh off the mint.  I remarked to him how pink they looked, 
and he thought I was crazy.  Well, I know that 8% of human males have 
some deficiency in color perception, but although I have not been 
formally tested, all evidence over the years indicates I am not one of them.

Over the past few days, I've received a few fresh pennies, so I present 
to you a couple of Awsome Rolexes of these almost-virgin beauties for 
your inspection.  So why am I posting this here instead of p.o-t? 
Because I will try to compute a nominal RGB value (taking the 
environment into account) and submit it, among other values, to the 
Object Collection.

new_pennies.pbi.jpg was shot during a brief window of sunshine between 
snowstorms (smirk!), using daylight white balance. 
new_pennies-flash.pbi.jpg was shot with a Nikon flash of some sort, with 
uncertain white balance.  I put the hazelnut there so that the autofocus 
wouldn't go nuts.

So what do you think?  Pink or not pink?

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P.S. Speaking of the Object Collection, I /really/ think someone should 
take a look at the message I posted in p.o-c a couple of weeks ago. 
While I trust the lawyers at the FSF, I can't say the same for any 
lawyers who might challenge POV-Ray in the future.

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