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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4958961, member: 105098&quot;]rosethe, sure. &quot;woodie&quot; is a term for lincoln cents with improper alloy mixing for&nbsp; bronze cents.&nbsp; The Bronze was 95% copper, 5% tin and zinc and alloyed. On occasion it&#039;s not mixed enough and as a result you have specks/globs of copper in the Bronze alloy metal that goes to the sheet rollers to then bring to to specification thickness and punched out. these specs or globs get stretched on out in the rolling process to get the right thickness, and they tone at a different rate than the properly mixed Bronze alloy. the copper tones faster. the streaked toning looks a lot like &quot;wood grain&quot; hence the nickname for it of &quot;woodie&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>An example, although mine is lightly toned and not as developed or dramatic as other examples, and more toned on the obverse than the reverse (I guess due to it being in a folder for a period of time), it&#039;s evident the metal is toning at different rates, this is due to the copper streaks in the bronze alloy.</p><p>it would be totally invisible when the coin was struck and all of it would be red BU. it&#039;s only once toning develops does the issue manifest because it&#039;s toning at different rates. Some are stunning, some kind of look terrible also in my opinion, but it&#039;s a preference. People that like the &quot;woodie&quot; for the eye appeal will seek them out and fight over them at auction, but it&#039;s not like a &quot;set pricing thing&quot; it&#039;s a case by case basis, even in a lot of cases adding no value at all.&nbsp; Just niche collecting really, like rainbow morgan dollars or VAM collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1192120[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1192121[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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