Freshly cut wood!

I love the first stages of wood forming! Post your RB woodies here.

 

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Here's another!

 

Here's a 41.

 

I found another couple of pics.

 

I LIKE!!!!! Particularly that 1916- and the 1938-D (66?)

I have not had much luck lately finding any. If you don't mind my asking, where did you come across them?

 

Can you explain what a woodie is, and I'm not talking about the anatomy thing.

 

Dick - I had them in my collection. I recently sold these from my bank box to finance my vacation. I'm sure I bought them all at coin shows and/or dealers over the years.

 

Pennies are copper/zinc/tin alloys. When they are not properly mixed to begin, the resulting material tones to different colors and at different rates. The process of rolling the planchet material tends to stretch the alloy linearly causing the striations to form lines imitating wood grain. Thus the term "woodie".

 

Thank you for the explanation. I did notice the "graining" effect they all had, just didn't know why or how.

 

I don't know if this qualifies as a "woodie" but it's the closest I got

I know it ain't in the best condition, it came from a bank roll

 

Here's one of my woodies, not red-brown, but I think the reverse displays a good example of the woodgraining effect.

 

While I'm not a collector of Lincolns, this is a good piece of information to know.

Thanks, Doug!

Chris

 

Great info, no doubt. Thanks.

 

Love that 16 woody

 

Sweet S-VDB! I love that coin!

 

Thank you!

 

not rb, but here's my only woodie...

 

Great thread, thanks for the additional info Doug!

 

Your 1934 has the wood graining effect I admire the most, with the exception of super wild tiger wood that makes it almost impossible to make out the design of the coin. I have pulled 11 more woodies from bank boxes in the last 2 weeks, but none of them can even come close to RB, so I won't post them here