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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not bad at all. As usual, I'll need to re-evaluate my stash of '23 S pieces--those having a sharp mint mark.
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Valued Member
United States
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It's hard to see without magnification, but it is a nice example! Gorgeous coin too in general.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nice pickup, nice RPM!  Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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Moderator
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nice find TB - does this one also have the touch of the wood too?
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for a kind comments! And yes, this one has a little bit of woody going on. Actually makes seeing the RPM a bit tougher as there is a lot of color change going on with the coin's surface. I don't mind an attractive woody, but would rather have the variety coins on a uni-color planchet.
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Pillar of the Community
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TB, quick comment on calling this a Woody. So a few of my ground find wheats have conserved this way. They may complete in brilliant fashion but have the Zebra effect as shown in yours. Personally I find them visually appealing.
I've always chalked it up to some random effect of conservation. More specifically, I've concluded that the striations were the removal of the oxidation layer that simply exposed the true color of the metal underneath. I'll confess that I know little about how oxidation lays down or why it would come off in strips but now you have me wondering if they might actually be Woodys.
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12/17/2023 11:01 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Meant to add, great, crisp acquisition. Gotta love those kind of strong strikes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The woody effect, like this with small tiger stripes all over, can be tough to grade. In some cases it makes the coin look like it was hit with a rotary brush, something that has been done to some coins as well. I've had a couple perfect woody coins come back as cleaned.
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Valued Member
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Very nice, I can definately see that!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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TB, if you don't mind I'll take some pics of a few of my conservations that turned out similar and post here. Would appreciate your thoughts on whether they may be woodies.
BTW, never sent any in for grading - these were just ground finds that I conserved.
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Pillar of the Community
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DOCC
I don't know how your specific ground conditions affect lincolns. Where I detected, there was often a leaching effect. Part of the alloys, over time,would transfer out of the coin and into the ground. This often could be seen as a dark stain in the earth surrounding a long undisturbed coin.
This leaching from the coin would at times leave a porus surface or at times leave a hard green original surface over a porus interior coin.
I would think a coin that would tone to a woodie might have that appearance accentuated by leaching.
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Pillar of the Community
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Stoneman - totally get the leaching affect and soil conditions. My reference coins are not porous - they conserved well thru the encrustation down to a patina without any pitting, loss of weight, etc...
I went thru my current WIP pile and out of 50 or so LWCs I'm working on I pulled 4 that have the tiger stripes. What I find interesting is that all are 1910s or early 20's. I have often found that earlier LWCs and IHCs tend to hold up better to corrosion. My theory is the 5% tin and zinc was comprised of a higher percentage of tin back then. And when Zinc prices collapsed by 1930 the mint adjusted the ratio to more Zinc....leading to more rot on LWC/LMC ground coins. Tin is much more corrosion resistant than Zinc.
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Pillar of the Community
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Very nice acquisition, and great eye appeal!
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