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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 8123982, member: 105098&quot;]woodies are due to improper alloy mixing. they are not uniform and can be on one side only depending on the issue with the alloying of the metal. </p><p><br /></p><p>Before Zincons, the alloy was either 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc, or 95 percent copper and 2.5 percent each, tin and zinc.</p><p>&nbsp;when properly alloyed, it all tones at the same rate, if improper and there are streaks of the base metal thoughout, it will tone at different rates causing the woodie. </p><p><br /></p><p>even if you cleaned a woodie and re-toned it, it would manifest again and again in the same pattern, because the streaks are rolled out inclusions of different levels of brass and bronze from the improper alloying of the metal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve beat a dead horse with these pictures on here, but why not, any excuse to put them up again since it&#039;s the only woodie I own.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1414629[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1414630[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The effect can be on one side, what it shouldn&#039;t be is UNIFORM on both sides.</p><p>&nbsp;it should have a wood grain &quot;swirlish&quot; appearance to it not uniform but on a flip the lines moving in the same general direction from it being rolled out and hopefully pleasing to the eye and not simply lines on both sides. </p><p><br /></p><p>that all said and done, I looked at 7 pages of ebay listings for cent and woodie woody, I didn&#039;t see a single one that was eye appealing, and most weren&#039;t even woodies in my opinion, just streaked, well circulated coins without luster, or roller lined 70s and 80s cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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