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Message:: [QUOTE="VistaCruiser69, post: 8266354, member: 107016"]Woodies are different.  The metals of a real woody have an inconsistent mix in the materials.  What the quarters in this thread are is something that's made marks on the coin's surface.  I came across tons of pennies like this about the time I first became a member on this site.  There was lots of discussion about what it was.  It's on the surface.  That's why some think that it's roller marks.  I was able to polish off these marks on one of the pennies that I had.  I used Never Dull to do this.  It was just an average penny with these marks, so cleaning it, so to speak, didn't make a difference.  I wanted to see of these marks were just on the surface or deeper.  On my example, it was just on the surface and the marks went away with minimal effort. You can, in most cases, tell the difference between the coin that is posted on this thread and a real woody, by the shape of the marks running through the coin.  Real woodies almost look like inconsistent wood grain, whereas the other is almost perfect lines. Here are a few images I lifted during a google search that can explain it better. [ATTACH=full]1458538[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1458539[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1458540[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]