How about a modern Woody/Toner quarter?!

Came out of a customer roll...yes, it really looks like this!
Not something you see much with moderns and vintage coins alike...a nice woody texture with beautiful natural toning!

I know this is a challenge because they're so rare but, let's see some toned woodies of any denomination!

 

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I no expert but those look like "Roller Marks".

 

Lol Sal!... for those who are just learning about woodys...

There are plenty of debates about this grain that shows up in modern quarters...but I can tell you 100% for sure that woody grain is in fact in the alloy of the planchet. Definitely not roller marks here.

Notice how the grain continues perfectly across the raised devices...because the woody texture was already there before the coin was struck.

I EDITED HERE - WELL...It's very adult to eat your own words lol. I agree fully below that this is in fact roller marks.
If there's anything us coin collectors love, it's learning new bits

 

Oh that's lovely

 

I like roller marks a lot but I like woody cents better (and pennies too, for the semantics police, because I also have woodies from GB )

Here's a recent addition:

 

I tend to agree with @SensibleSal66 on this one, but if you have done the research, please educate us on why this is an improperly mixed clad.
@Fred Weinberg, @JCro57, @paddyman98 your input?

 

Great question @Mountain Man!
I myself would love to know how to differentiate roller marks from an improper alloy!
I'm making a few assumptions on my quarter because what I see seems to be in the metal as apposed to ON the metal...

 

Roller marks are incused, but may be undetectable. Have you checked that?

 

It's not an improperly mixed alloy for a couple reasons

* an improperly mixed alloy starts with a randomly shaped region in the ingot.
* these regions get elongated during the rolling process, but since the shapes are random, the areas will still vary in thickness and location. You can see how the shape varies on the 2 examples others have posted
* your coin has parallel lines of consistent thicknesses. That is increadibly unlikely to occur from a randomly shaped region in the melt.
* also your coin has similar lines on both sides, yet the outer layers of the clad come from diff feedstock with the copper sandwiched in the middle. Cents and nickels are rolled from 1 ingot which makes it possible for the improperly mixed regions to be visible on both sides

A better explanation is that dirty rollers pressed oil/residue just slightly into the surface of the strip. Over time, this contamination can tone differently than the rest of the coin. These have been called roller marks, but traditionally roller marks have defined by sites like error-ref as being slightly recessed due to something adhering to the rollers. That's why I prefer the term dirty rollers.

I believe this is the same mechanism that caused the parallel striations found on some 1979-81 cents that are some think are woodies.

 

Not a woodie,but an 1975 D Jefferson nickel that shows that the medal wasn't mixed-rolled correctly.
Nickels are .750 copper/250 nickel. I found this one roll searching years ago.

The 75 hi D variety is very rare as well pricey.

 

Well that's super helpful!
Also I hadn't thought about your point of...
* also your coin has similar lines on both sides, yet the outer layers of the clad come from diff feedstock with the copper sandwiched in the middle. Cents and nickels are rolled from 1 ingot which makes it possible for the improperly mixed regions to be visible on both sides

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If I owned that quarter, I would also call it a woody. It's unique, thanks for sharing.

 

I think this could be an annealing issue and not an improper alloy. Maybe even environmental, but I'm leaning towards annealing. Just an opinion and I could be wrong.

Also, I am assuming you added the high D info as an FYI and not saying that's what you have

 

they are still cool to behold

 

more likely from when it went to the annealing chamber..improper annealed coin, or planchet

 

One of my improperly annealed planchet.

 

how
Ooooooooooo...gotta show mine

 

Wow...super amazing! Wish it was mine!

 

Here's my woody from Australia. Semi Key also. I love this baby