How fun it is to admire the beautiful woodies of members of CoinTalk! But I always wanted one of my very own. Recently, in the wee hours of the morning I found a couple of rather normal ones (if they are even woodies) and then not an hour later I found an extraordinary one like I had never seen before. I went to see if I could find anything similar on the Internet, but all I could find was a description here: https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-c...es-on-coins-are-not-fully-understood.all.html Sorry about the blurry darkness of the pencil stripe woodie, but it was difficult to capture the stripes. Edited to say that if there is any interest, I will photograph the reverse again because I think I am seeing stripes on that side in parts of it, too, that I did not notice before. I have posted three coins here and ask for your feedback as to whether they are “woodies” please. Thanks in advance.
The '29 definitely, the '82 probably, but the '81 looks like feeder finger lines (very uniform and evenly spaced). Gotta love them woodies!
The 29 for sure. I see a lot of 80-82 coppers that look like the ones you posted. Not sure I would consider that a Woody or not.
Yep, there seems to be some disagreement, or else at least not a concensus about what causes these ‘pencil stripes.’ Some think it may be an alloy issue and some think it as you say. I am glad I have one. Thanks for your feedback and I will keep reading whatever I can find about it.
What interested me was something mentioned in the article I linked to stated "Freshly minted coins are sometimes adorned by parallel stripes. The physical characteristics point to diverse etiologies, which are often poorly understood." So if this pencil striping was caused by dirty rollers, then it's only relation to the woodie would be that both are planchette errors?
Yes @MeowtheKitty - The mint mark - I think that is a die chip but I'm not absolutely sure. I'll need to get a better picture of it. My vision really leaves a lot to be desired, and so does my camera work. I'm going to work on my photography. Yours is pretty great!
Meow gets by on a simple USB magnifier. If you don't have one, you should consider getting one as it also can serve as a good eye in CRH. Meow can examine any coin at decent magnification on Meow's laptop. As Meow's vision is not quite what it used to be. Not an eagle eyed kitten no more, unfortunately.
Hi and thank you @MeowtheKitty . I purchased a little scope that attaches to my iPad but that doesn't work very well. I think I'll try what you suggest. Thanks again.
Thinking more about the mint mark, it probably wouldn't be a die chip, would it? Since they put the mint marks on by hand? Hmmm. Something else to look up. I'm not sure what is going on there...yet.
