My "new" 1918 "woody"

It is really one of the most interesting woodies I have seen because it truly looks like old, weathered wood. Barn door wood, coarse and dried and soft, the kind that gives you splinters.

Not sure I get the earlier pictures. The below one, for example. It appears the coin was conserved since then, perhaps with VerdiCare or something like it. I like the results, whatever it was.

It is forgivable, I think, to have concluded there was environmental damage. The obverse rim at 7k looks like corrosion, but is perhaps related to the whole lamination thing. There is so much peeling going on...the coin is really a lovable wreck.
Lance.

 

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I can't prove it, but that stuff on the obverse sure looks like lamination to me. There might be some corrosion in the depths, but I am pretty sure the root of it was lamination. If you look at the rim where the light and dark meet at the bottom, you can see a piece of the lamination still attached and another couple small pieces at the upper junction of the colors. Conserved - very likely from what I can make out between the pictures.

 

That's a very unique looking woody there Jeff (I get your earlier irritation as I have to work around my 4 year old son-named Jeffrey after his father lol!), thanks for sharing! Also, nice job on the super-sized pics Lance-you've captured y the details beautifully!

Only one thing that I disagree on-I definitely have quite a few wheaties that are woody's, but I have found many of them up to 82. I have a toned 1981 posted that looks like there are tire tracks driving over Lincoln's head: http://www.cointalk.com/t191715-post1271155/?highlight=#post1271155

They seem to be very prevalent in the 70's, although the look is more of a fine woodgrain compared to this or many of the early wheaties, especially the 1920's. I Love Silver's coin definitely looks more like an old barn board or a piece of driftwood, and I love it!

 

Double post, droid x is still trying to take over the world...

 

great looking woody, only kind of coin toning i like

 

Told ya! j/k Wow nice photo's for sure! You do wonderful work Lance! Thank you very kindly!

 

whats verdicare? Lamination? Maybe I don't understand? It has never been preserved only put in a flip to mail. If anything was done to it it wasn't by me. I don't touch my coins with anything chemical and I'd Never laminate anything. I did laminate my social Security card once...just to stick it to the man...lol

 

Methinks that what your seeing in the earlier pictures is the tweaking on picasa I had to do to get it to look right because as you know it's sort of trying to get these to show up on film like they look in hand. I was messing with the contrast and highlights. Does that help?

 

Holy crap I see what your saying..that gunk on the back is missing! I don't know what to tell ya- I didn't clean it but I know that I was the first person to handle this coin in a very long time. Maybe from putting it in my pocket en route home that day? I put it in the flip at the PO.

 

Wowzerz that was a fast trip across the continent! I just got my penny back today along with an awesome bonus! Thank you Lance you rock!

 

Nice pictures lance. That certainly is an interesting coin. And lamination is planchet defect when portions of the metal separate because of impurities.

 

I just got a kick out of reading through this thread. Nice woodie ILS.

Lance, aside from being a very talented photographer, and owning some of the most beautiful coins I've seen, you are one of the true gentlemen on this forum, it's guys like you that make CoinTalk what it is.

 

Agreed! Prestige comes to mind. He does wonderful work and sent me some cool stamps on the return mailer so he pays attention to detail obviously! The slabbed coin he sent me too was very thoughtful. Thank you Lance.

 

Thanks for the nice words. But really, a hundred guys here would have done the same. I'm having fun just being part of the team!
Lance.

 

I apologize the link got broken to that first image. I must have accidentally deleted it or something. I don't think I can edit it now either..

 

Thank you again Lance! I still cherish this coin nomatter what the intrinsic is. What a nice photo set too!