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I have a preference for the blue coat, thanks to "DuckTales."

Quote from user: Review Or DieRed and grey, though I think the blue DuckTales coat has its merits too.
Ditto. I actually hated the blue-with-red-highlights DuckTales coat at first, assuming it was yet another example of the show's lack of faithfulness to the comics, until I learned that the DuckTales coat was based on the way most European publishers colored Scrooge's coat. Barks himself seemed to somewhat favor the red-with-gray-highlights coat, considering he used it most often in his lithographs, but even he was hardly consistent on that score. Based on "Race to the South Seas", he apparently meant for Scrooge's spats to be white, at least at first (Gladstone's too; honestly, do spats ever come in non-white models, except in Disney comics?). Am I right in crediting Gladstone I with the standardization (after a fashion) of Scrooge's coat as the red-with-gray-highlights model (including his spats being gray; spats being the same color as coat highlights seems to be a tradition that's been honored across colorists)?

On a related subject, since we all know cartoon characters can only ever wear one outfit, how would most people color the clothes of other Barks characters? I've always imagined Gladstone's suit to be a light gray/lilac mix (including his hat and yes, his spats). The commonly portrayed moderate-orange shirt/blue pants of the Beagle Boys seems right to me. Red highlights on Magica's black dress seems fitting, as well.

I think he was talking about the paintings and lithographs specifically, but even those weren't totally consistent.

Red and blue

Quote from user: VoBoI like the red and grey/black most. I think that works best colourwise.
But I don't like the spats and cane in blue.....
Spats should always be beige or tan. I am old enough to have seen non-costumed, normal people wearing spats.

Are you referring to The Pauper's Glass in Uncle Scrooge #298?

I had a look at what's Barks-approved, so I looked up the scans of his paintings and watercolors on INDUCKS. I assume he got to choose the color of Scrooge's coat in the beginning, and stuck with it (save for a few exceptions - but they may have been buyer's request). He preferred the red-with-grey coat, using it in the vast majority of paintings.

A few times he copied the color of the original printed comic (cover), giving us a blue-with-purple coat -- that was later changed at the owner's request -- , a green-with-grey coat, and a blue-with-brown coat -- that had been blue-with-red in the original comic, but it didn't look nice anyway -- , and finally a dark green coat.

There's also one instance where he painted Scrooge's collar and sleeves brown, which comes off as red in many printings. I personally don't like this coat - it's too homogenous.

I like Scrooge's dark green coat.
There are many, many other color variations in the early Uncle Scrooge comics. I think they come off rather well, but that's probably more because of Western's very basic coloring (there's no way a bright yellow coat would look good today) than any actual attempt at style.

I'm going to have to say red and grey from the American versions of the comics, with the blue and red color scheme from Ducktales coming in a close second.
As an American, I guess I'm just more used to the red and grey color scheme, with the Ducktales color scheme coming in a close second due to me growing up with the show through re-runs on Toon Disney (I must have started watching the show when I was about six or seven). Whenever I draw and color in Scrooge, I always go with red and grey, unless I'm drawing him in the context of Ducktales, then I go with blue and red.